Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
by Const-me on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:31PM
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And another reason, Google makes money when you click on low-quality machine generated search results, because these pages are almost always monetized with google ads. This causes a conflict of interests: when they improve search, they earn less money.
Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
by jayqd3 on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:42PM
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Your remark is very good. How do they balance rich answers which lead to zero-clicks with the revenues which are based on a-clicks? Thanks.
Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
by numpad0 on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:57PM
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I’ve seen it: I happened to enter exactly the same query from two separate IPs used by communities without deep cultural connections in between, and only one of them returned the desired results.
That felt like a thick wall of glass separating worlds have suddenly come into my view.
Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
by hobs on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:07PM
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ooh yeah, especially when I am doing some specific database programming stuff and my results come up with amazing perfect resources and a noob's results come up with absolute shit... its bad.
A lot of people say this is because Google is worse at returning the desired search results for various reasons (algos, ads, spam, etc). I've come to suspect it is more deliberate on the part of Google.
I've said it before, so I'll belt out the chant again: "Google doesn't make money from providing the right search results. Google makes money from keeping you searching for the right search results."
This is especially true for the vast majority of people on the internet who do not know there are any (better or worse) alternatives to Google.