{"id":17788,"date":"2017-04-19T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17788"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:45:55","slug":"how-google-eats-a-business-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/how-google-eats-a-business-whole\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google Eats a Business Whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/1399\/how-google-ate-celebritynetworth-com\">Adrianne Jeffries<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannysullivan\/status\/854104162983845888\">Danny Sullivan<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/1399\/how-google-ate-celebritynetworth-com\"><p>In 2014, Warner got an email from Google asking if he would be interested in giving the company access to his data in order to scrape it for Knowledge Graph, for free.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t understand the benefit to us,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a big ask. Like, &lsquo;hey, let us tap into the most valuable thing that you have, that has taken years to create and we&rsquo;ve spent literally millions of dollars, and just give it to us for free so we can display it.&rsquo; At the end of it, we just said &lsquo;look, we&rsquo;re not comfortable with this.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But then they went ahead and took the data anyway.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2017\/04\/18\/google-data-scraping\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2017\/04\/18\/google-data-scraping\"><p>Now that Warner has had to lay off half his staff, the data is surely going to suffer.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrianne Jeffries (via Danny Sullivan): In 2014, Warner got an email from Google asking if he would be interested in giving the company access to his data in order to scrape it for Knowledge Graph, for free. [&#8230;] &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t understand the benefit to us,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a big ask. Like, &lsquo;hey, let us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,51,343,96],"class_list":["post-17788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-google","tag-search","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17789,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions\/17789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}