Re:Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:41PM
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Do a google search for "computer". The entire first page is ads save for the one Wikipedia link.
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Re:Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
by marcosdumay on Sunday December 15, 2019 @01:53PM
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Honestly, I don't think the Google results are currently of bad quality. A search for "computer" is mostly meaningless, and they could reasonably fill it with anything.
It is also not as absurdelly far ahead of anybody else as it used to be.
I mostly avoid it, but that's because I mostly avoid any Google service. All of them are bundled and I don't want some AI misstep to lock me out of the few of their services I care about. At this point some forced unbundling would bring a huge trust benefit to Google.
But anyway, it is very clear that the bundling of Google's monopolies on ads and search are a huge barrier to innovation and competition on both of those.