This reminds me of Walmarts squeezing strategy with all the manufacturers. Business with us at the price we say or out of business.

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johnny_canuck 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But ultimately that strategy is good for the consumer right?

In this context, if Google is going to give me the recipe without having to scroll through the story, that seems like a win to me.

The ad-revenue driven Internet of web 2.0 is finally dead and I'm not sure I'm all that sad.

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redsparrow 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Without some way to generate revenue, people aren't going to publish recipes (for Google to scrape into their AI.) Maybe we could live without more recipes being fed into the machine, but there are many other types of content that will suffer the same fate.

It would be nice to find something better than an ad-revenue driven web, but I'm not sure this is it. We'll find out I guess...

	▲	bbondo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> people aren't going to publish recipes Sure they are. I can attest that musicians will gladly publish their music even when no recompense is offered. Surely culinary artists are the same.

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mcphage 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> But ultimately that strategy is good for the consumer right?

No. Temporarily it’s good for the consumer. Ultimately it is bad for the consumer, because as prices drop, so to does quality.

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Ar-Curunir an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

No, because now Google controls entirely what you see. They could decide to show you the recipe after all.

Also, at some point even the ad-laden websites will die, and then Googles sources will be extinguished.

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burnte 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep, this is exactly why some companies simply don't work with Walmart.

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BurningFrog 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is tough for the manufacturer, but great for the consumer.

I think it's a good tradeoff.

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augzodia 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

it's because both google and walmart have too much market power