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A comment on Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as Google sees a decline. Parent comment

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by jeffbee on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:26PM (#35294232)
Not really. Yahoo was selling every search result slot. There was no quality to it at all. It was all paid.
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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by selimthegrim on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:52PM (#35294533)
AltaVista wasn’t terrible.
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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by fortran77 on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:08PM (#35294742)
Infoseek! Until it was killed by Disney sex offenders.

https://www.wired.com/1999/09/arrest-of-a-web-pioneer/

(I had the misfortune of working for him )

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by Zanfa on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:07PM (#35294734)
Google can also return enough ads to push real search result below fold, while also making it as hard as possible to discern between real and paid results.
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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by AviationAtom on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:58PM (#35295389)
If you saw how much of Google's revenue comes from ad spending then it makes perfect sense why it is the way it is now. But it goes to show what being hyperfocused on revenue does to the user experience.
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