Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by moffkalast on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:47AM
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Not sure why they'd care, they have effectively infinite money from adsense.
Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by marcosdumay on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:13AM
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As long as people don't abandon search, yeah, they do. If they lose their absolute dominance in search, they will automatically have competition on adsense too.
Or maybe Google disagrees with my assessment, but I can't imagine what kind of inside information would make them do that. It looks like a very clear and inescapable reality to me.
Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by pixl97 on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:41AM
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You should know that's not how capitalism works. They have to keep making more money per dollar every year or they get punished in the market. They've tapped out on their limits of growth and now actual costs are increasing due to floods of automated crap at levels far beyond what we had in the past.
Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by moffkalast on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:03PM
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They have a practical monopoly on web and mobile ads, if they really are stagnating then all they need to do is jack up prices by a fraction of a cent and it's already billions in profit. I'm sure they have no problem increasing revenue over time.
Given how stupidly common ads are, increasing prices and upping scarcity would be a good thing overall anyway.
Why provide the best product when you only have to have a product slightly better than your competition. After that everything is profit.
Couple that with a huge portion of new sites seem to be bot generated shit that's copied from other places on the internet it seems Google has given up on the open web.