Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
by inetknght on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:40PM
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> They lost ad impressions.
Sure, that counts as revenue. It's not something I'm going to lose sleep over. I don't exactly think that advertisements should be a profitable "feature" of the internet in its current form.
> Why not? It's not like that they had any other options than trying to extract that information from ad-laden websites.
You completely missed my point. Now that Google "owns" the data and provides the answer, the user won't need to click on a scummy site.
Moreover, casual questions not answered directly by Google are answered by casual browsing. Casual browsing happens with ad blockers. If a site breaks when an ad blocker is in use, users exit the site.
Sure, that counts as revenue. It's not something I'm going to lose sleep over. I don't exactly think that advertisements should be a profitable "feature" of the internet in its current form.
> Why not? It's not like that they had any other options than trying to extract that information from ad-laden websites.
You completely missed my point. Now that Google "owns" the data and provides the answer, the user won't need to click on a scummy site.
Moreover, casual questions not answered directly by Google are answered by casual browsing. Casual browsing happens with ad blockers. If a site breaks when an ad blocker is in use, users exit the site.