Comment Nigerian scam? (Score 1) 119
It might be the same reason that Nigerian scamers still say they are from Nigeria: Animals that are scared of big spiders stay away, while insects that ignore spiders get caught by the web.
133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1 mm
In that case they can just add a simple robots,txt to tell the "parasite" to go away. And then start waving their fucking magic wand around to make people discover the site directly.
Because they don't want their sites excluded, they want to force some other company (google) to pay them money for the content since actual readers refuse to do it.
But Google can refuse to show their content if the options are either pay for crawling it and not to crawl it.
Of course, I wouldn't put it past legislators to force Google to crawl and pay.
When can we start travelling over there?
We have to establish colonies with factions fighting each other!
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