Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm

Re:Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ran... by breakfastduck on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:13AM (#40511088)

We don't, but a model where a user pays for a service rather than being free and ad supported is significantly less likely to enact user unfriendly changes.

If the way you make money is by convincing people to pay, you are highly incentivised to make the product good, especially where there are many other free competitors who are ad supported.

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Re:Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ran... by glitchc on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:21AM (#40511156)

Tell that to cable companies, sports broadcasts and now streaming services. The one incontrovertible fact of modern society is that ads eat everything else. No other revenue source compares.

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Re:Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ran... by karma_pharmer on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:33AM (#40511260)

ads eat everything else

Well duh. Because it's the only value you're allowed to collect from retail customers without having to deal with either chargebacks or kyc.

We've deliberately made every other form of micropayment infeasible. It shouldn't be surprising that the only one left is insanely popular.

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Re:Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ran... by sseagull on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @09:28AM (#40511783)

Partly. But also because it's just a way to make more money. If you make X from payments, and you can make Y from ads, then X+Y > X.

You might lose some people, but probably not many - we've been conditioned to really accept ads everywhere.

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Re:Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ran... by glitchc on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @10:43AM (#40512506)

Also because Y>>X.

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