Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says

Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by nomel on Sunday September 11, 2022 @07:55PM (#32804396)

> Feel free to verify this is the case for you.

Yes, if only one page is shown, it’s accurate. I picked that (unquoted, sorry) phrase because it resulted in two results pages for me, showing a worse case scenario. With your settings, it would require a term with > 100 results to see the fiction.

I actually do assume it’s intentional, because

1. It’s predominant, at the top left of the page

2. I assume your UI team is competent and cares about every pixel shown on the screen, especially predominantly placed ones

3. it’s great marketing

4. It’s absurdly incorrect. 10x could be ubderstandable. It’s off by nearly 27,000x error here.

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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by utopcell on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:39PM (#32804589)

It was a good query, I'd have done something similar to replicate.

I can guarantee you that it's not intentional. It was definitely easier to estimate in the past, when a single query was fired on a single corpus for a given user input, but modern web search is vastly more complicated than this.

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