IMDb
Canonical film/TV metadata within Amazon—indispensable lookups with ads, Prime nudges, and data leverage across commerce and streaming.
Extraction Stage 3
Surplus shifts toward business customers and shareholders; ads, fees, and degradation accelerate.
IMDb is reference in the cultural sense: cast lists, trivia, ratings culture. The surplus to readers is huge; the business is attention and data feeding a larger empire. Ads and Amazon cross-sells are the visible extraction layer. Stage 3: still helpful, clearly monetized.
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Stack Overflow
3 ExtractionDefault Q&A layer for programmers; community labor and SEO gravity built the corpus, while ownership and product choices steer monetization and AI reuse.
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Wikipedia
1 User surplusA nonprofit reader mission with volunteer editors; ads are off by default and the core reading experience still prioritizes users over rent extraction.
