9 months ago

Back when the web was young, it wasn’t yet clear what the rules were. Then came some legal rulings to establish that, yes, on the web you can just link to anything without checking if it’s okay first.

Google’s business model relies on us publishing web pages so that they can put ads around the search results linking to that content, and we rely on Google to send people to our websites by responding smartly to search queries. Instead of responding to search queries by linking to the web pages we’ve made, Google is instead generating dodgy summaries rife with hallucina…

Google still benefits from us publishing web pages.