That line of thinking makes no sense. If the "content" had no value, why would google go through the effort of scraping it and presenting it to the user?
>If the "content" had no value, why would google go through the effort of scraping it and presenting it to the user?
They don't present it all, they summarize it.
And let's be serious here, I was being polite because I don't know the OPs business. But 99% of this sort of content is SEO trash and contributes to the wasteland that the internet is becoming. Feel free to point me to the good stuff.
Pedantry aside, let's restate as "present the core thoughts" to the user, which still implies value. I agree that most of google front page results are SEO garbage these days, but that's a separate issue from claiming that are summary of a piece of information removes the original of its value. I'd even argue that it transfers it from one entity to the other in this case.
I would also think that the intrinsic value is different. If there is a hotel on a mountain writing "quality content" about the place, to them it really doesn't matter who "steals" their content, the value is in people going to the hotel on the mountain not in people reading about the hotel on the mountain.
Like to society the value is in the hotel, everything else is just fluff around it that never had any real value to begin with.
> Feel free to point me to the good stuff.
Travel bloggers and vloggers, but that is an entirely different unaffected industry (entertainment/infotainment).
I've no doubt some good ones exist, but my instinct is to ignore every word this industry says because it's paid placement and our world is run by advertisers.
It's not that it has no value, it's that there is no established way (other than ad revenue) to charge users for that content. The fact that google is able to monetize ad revenue at least as well as, and probably better than, almost any other entity on the internet, means that big-G is perfectly positioned to cut out the creator -- until the content goes stale, anyway.
This will be quite interesting in the future. One can usually tell if a blog post is stale, or whether it’s still relevant to the subject it’s presenting. But with LLMs they’ll just aggregate and regurgitate as if it was a timeless fact.
This is already a problem. Content farms have realised that adding "in $current_year" to their headlines helps traffic. It's frustrating when you start reading and realise the content is two years out of date.
