4 hours ago
> The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.
Agree 100%.
6 hours ago
What open web?
4 hours ago
The one that is not closed behind paywalls or sign ups with atrocious conditions; the one that allows everybody to participate, not just rich people; the one for which listed NGOs are fighting, see, e.g., https://www.eff.org/work.
6 hours ago
The one being smothered, trampled, and raided by the corporate web