Introducing Structured Snippets, now a part of Google Web Search

I always assumed that the personal-agent style work (ie a bot that is there to help you wade through the morass of information) would be a personal computation - local to you, probably configured and augmented by you.<p>Yet Google is trying to do it for everyone - and honestly does not seem to be doing a bad job.<p>So what is the advantages of the old idea of an almost-AI assisstant working for me when BFG (Big Friendly Google) does it?

At what point will all these snippets stop being &quot;fair use&quot; and start being copyright violations? What happens if your website aggregates schedules of some obscure (but interesting to a niche audience) event and makes money off of advertising. And Google decides to show the snippet of the next 5 upcoming events on the SERP itself, thus killing your traffic.

&gt; algorithms to determine quality and relevance that we use to display up to four highly ranked facts from those data tables.<p>Are the selected facts related to the user&#x27;s query or search history?

Looks <i>exactly</i> like DuckDuckGo&#x27;s topic summary boxes, only I bet google spins way more CPUs to autogenerate them...<p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nikon+d7100" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=nikon+d7100</a>

Google finally launched Yahoo&#x27;s SearchMonkey.<p><a href="https://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/siteowner.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.yahoo.com&#x2F;searchmonkey&#x2F;siteowner.html</a>

Come on Google, when you are going to impress us again?<p>Things like this feel like the 90s and shouldn&#x27;t even to be something worth speaking or caring about.

Introducing &quot;we are the world&#x27;s largest scraped round 202 and no one seems to notice or care.&quot;

Google should share their income from SERPs with webmasters.

... and let the spamming begin

Google once again takes information from your web page and puts it on their search results page. How will this affect click-throughs? I can see how it might help with traffic sent from SERPS as your site might seem more authoritative.