• superkret@feddit.org
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    By the way:
    They do that for 3 reasons: Keeping you on the site longer, which increases its rating with Google.
    Adding more space for ads.
    And preventing others from simply scraping and reposting the entire content on their site, since recipes by themselves can’t be copyrighted, but written stories can.

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      On the google note

      It’s because Google prioritizes unique content and prioritizes the beginning of a web page more than the end

      If they put the recipe at the top it would be flagged as duplicate content

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      True.

      Although in Tolkien’s case, I think no one bothered to tell him that writers like Dickens were paid per-word for what they wrote and he just figured he’d do what everyone he grew up reading did.

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        writers like Dickens were paid per-word

        Is that true? That explains Great Expectations. I had to read that in high school and it just went on and oooooon.

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          According to UC Santa Cruz, Dickens was not paid per word, but by installment. The novels were released in monthly installments, which culminated in a full novel. They do not mention Great Expectations specifically, but do say he would release a novel over 20 issues, costing 1 shilling per issue, making it easier for normal people to buy his novels since a full book cost around 31 shillings at the time and the common man only had to save one shilling a month instead of 31 in one go.

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              Upon further research, get expectations was released weekly in his periodical over 9 months.

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        How does that work?

        Now stir in the sour cream - “56&fHR+6AakOUH5&#3FJ” brand works best?

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          You crazy?! Not in the instructions. In the narrative portion. Where I talk about my hike through the Yukon, where I meditated and during that time, hunter2