Challenges Posed By Search Engines on E-Commerce Profitability

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, January 9, 2006: Search Engines as Leeches on the Web

  • “Summary: Search engines extract too much of the Web’s value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. Liberation from search dependency is a strategic imperative for both websites and software vendors.”
  • Posted in: E-Commerce, Search Engines