Exactly! Google is in the attention business, the more you stay the more they make

Best case for Google is you click through and watch 10 videos without ever finding what you're after, so you try again the next day.

Watch 10 videos and then fall down a rabbit hole and forget what you were even there to look for - the even more best case!

I get it now. It's just like some grocery stores used to operate. They purposely moved stuff around so people have to wander in order to find things. Or they put common items far away so people have to interact with other stuff. Theory is that it increases sales.

So they say, attention is all you need.

> Google is in the attention business

This is probably the best description of their business model.

attention abuse would be a better one, imo.