Sorry I didn't reply earlier. I don't think that's necessarily the case. The question here is Google's ranking of original content. If they rank it lower than search sites, that would only drive original content off the net if the primary motivation of the content authors is to get traffic through Google.
As long as there are chumps like me that write content for our own personal reasons, or who drive traffic through sites like HN and twitter referrals, scrapers can piggyback on my work and Google can do whatever it likes. It won't affect my motivation to create content.
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Sorry I didn't reply earlier. I don't think that's necessarily the case. The question here is Google's ranking of original content. If they rank it lower than search sites, that would only drive original content off the net if the primary motivation of the content authors is to get traffic through Google.
As long as there are chumps like me that write content for our own personal reasons, or who drive traffic through sites like HN and twitter referrals, scrapers can piggyback on my work and Google can do whatever it likes. It won't affect my motivation to create content.