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		nostromo on Aug 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We're improving search results when you use quotes Google’s policy shifted. You can show the crawler full text of an article and then put it behind a paywall for example.

MonkeyMalarky on Aug 5, 2022 [–]

Not only does that benefit the site owners, it benefits Google by creating a moat. Any new entrant to search is initially restricted to the same content as you or I.

orangeoxidation on Aug 5, 2022 | [–]

Doesn't it make search worse though? I don't like my searches to end at paywalls and Google being able to do more of that doesn't seem an advantage.

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