Is Google Giving Detailed Search Results (On The Page Itself) A Good or A Bad Thing?
What is the process you follow when you want to get some information from the internet? For example I wanted today morning to find out when India was playing at the T20 World Cup. There were two steps I needed to follow either go in to the official website of the tournament or Google it. Since I was unaware of the site name I Googled the phrase âICC T20 World Cup Scheduleâ. As I pressed enter to my amazement Google served up the match schedules of every match being played under the ICC jurisdiction.
And I do not have to visit any websites like ESPNCricinfo and Yahoo Cricket etc for match scores Google gives them right on my search page.
This meant I did not have to go into the actual site that contained the information and it saved me time and internet data usage. But this caused me to think, If Google was serving the content what would the websites do that hosted the actual content?
#-Link-Snipped-# a few days back where Matt Cutts, the head of the webspam team at Google asked Google users let them know of scraper sites were ranking higher than the actual site in the searches, to that tweet #-Link-Snipped-# attached a screenshot showing how Google itself was doing the same. The same thing happens when you Google something about a movie or a celebrity. Google takes content from IMDB and Wikipedia and puts them up along with the search results.
While this is a good thing for us, what about the websites that are losing advertisement money because people are not visiting them. Yes, Google pays them an undisclosed amount of money for their information but is that worth losing visitors?
Put on your thinking caps and your fingers on your keyboard and let a healthy discussion begin.
