Re:The web starts on page four
by xp84 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:49PM
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> Google are not winning.
Even worse, they are completely disincentivised to do anything about it, since presently the ads occupy most or all of the real estate most users see anyway. Buying ads to show up in that section so you aren't drowned out by spam is exactly what benefits GOOG's shareholders. And I say this as a GOOG shareholder, lol.
I've come to believe that the organic results are a niche product that Google could eliminate tomorrow and most consumers wouldn't really realize anything had changed. They'll go to the first result 99% of the time, and 99% of the time that's an ad.
Even worse, they are completely disincentivised to do anything about it, since presently the ads occupy most or all of the real estate most users see anyway. Buying ads to show up in that section so you aren't drowned out by spam is exactly what benefits GOOG's shareholders. And I say this as a GOOG shareholder, lol.
I've come to believe that the organic results are a niche product that Google could eliminate tomorrow and most consumers wouldn't really realize anything had changed. They'll go to the first result 99% of the time, and 99% of the time that's an ad.