I find it hilarious that you would say this when you used to work for Google :)
All Google does is hijack other people's hard-written content and slap ads around it.
I am half-kidding, as I love Google, but I think your comment lacks some self-awareness about the reality of curation and what it offers to people. And how the world is funded. I mean how much of your house is paid for from ad revenue while you worked at Google?
Google didn’t steal people’s content when I left. Snippets weren’t a thing. It was a search engine that actually directed traffic to content creators.
Google didn’t make money on the curation, they made money from the separate ads on the side. I would have no problem if the author jammed ads off on the side.
The fact that you think ad revenue is the same as adding and replacing referral links from things that people already curated is pretty disturbing.
Google entirely makes money on curation :), that is what they do. Curate and organize the web. They also sub in their own product links everywhere.
The creator of this project threw in some referral links, but he didn't replace them. And maybe he made $20 to $50 bucks for what was a huge chunk of his time to create this fun data analysis project.
All Google does is hijack other people's hard-written content and slap ads around it.
I am half-kidding, as I love Google, but I think your comment lacks some self-awareness about the reality of curation and what it offers to people. And how the world is funded. I mean how much of your house is paid for from ad revenue while you worked at Google?