Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
by halflings on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:42PM
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This article is from 2015:
https://adage.com/article/digital/inside-google-s-secret-war...
"If advertisers believed the company's operation were fraud-filled, they could take their money elsewhere and the business would falter."
That's it, in a nutshell.
(and if they had 100 people working on this in 2015; you better believe that number is much higher now)
Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
by mirimir on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:09AM
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> This article is from 2015 ...
Maybe Google had more competition in 2015.
Although I find even that difficult to take seriously.
Where else would they "take their money"? Facebook? I doubt that Facebook ads show up in web searches.
Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
by owl57 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:56AM
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A lot of people probably see more Facebook ads than Google ones. And Facebook knows a lot about users, probably including some things that Google knows less reliably. The relevant problem is, do they seem any less scummy?
They dominate search traffic (in the markets/countries they exist for). Businesses don't use AdWords because they "trust" Google. They suffer through using AdWords because it's the only game in town.