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0 pointswhat_ever2y ago0 comments

Pretty sure the long recipes are due to others not being able to copy them if you have long essay describing it or something?

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dragonwriter2y ago

The essay is more protectible by copyright than the recipe itself, but including it doesn’t protect the recipe itself.

I actually think the issue is that the long essay provides more space to put advertising alongside or interrupting the flow.

doctorpangloss2y ago

I'm not sure why this particular idiosyncratic thing attracts so much mystery, but the answer is that there are long essays about the recipes because people like them.

Tarball102y ago

I assumed the long essays were for SEO (inflates the amount of cooking-related keywords). Which would make it kind of ironic that another Google product is now stripping the SEO content back out.

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