Comment by arka2147483647
3 years ago
> I think it works perfectly for stack overflow. Rarely is the full answer in the Google blurb. I almost always click through to the actual SO post.
No. There are websites that copy the content from SO to their Site, and then they SEO themselves to the top on Google, so that the SO Page is lower than the Copy Page.
This is not about the Google blurb.
This may be the case but it's rare enough I've never encountered it.
I encounter it on a daily basis. Anecdata aside, it’s some amount of lost traffic and humans react to measurable loss much more heavily than they do to potential gain