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Re: by kristianc on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:30AM (#44246087)
That wasn’t out of benevolence, that’s because they hadn’t discovered the ads business model yet. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle now.
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Re: by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:46AM (#44246181)
They're on record as talking about how Google has better results because it doesn't have ads.
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Re: by passwordoops on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:54AM (#44246231)
At that time and it's what got them the market share. Once they achieved monopoly status "Don't be Evil" was quietly replaced by "You call that an acceptable margin?!"
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Re: by schmidtleonard on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @11:51AM (#44248917)
They always knew.

> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

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