"But how will Google ever make money? There's the rub."

Re:"But how will Google ever make money? There's the rub." by josefresco on Saturday March 21, 2009 @02:43PM (#526408)

"But Brin says he isn't worried: "When somebody searches for 'cancer,' should you put up the site that paid you or the site that has better information?" Brin is betting better information will win the day. "

Sad that the answer now is 'both', which to un-savvy Internet users sometimes means the paid placement is the one they see first and think Google is serving as the top ranking site.

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Re:"But how will Google ever make money? There's the rub." by schoudha on Saturday March 21, 2009 @07:20PM (#526755)

No, the answer is not both.

Google has organic results and ad results, they are clearly distinguished in the UI and are generated by two distinct systems.

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Re:"But how will Google ever make money? There's the rub." by kragen on Saturday March 21, 2009 @08:25PM (#526812)

Whether the distinction in the UI is clear or not depends on how much experience you have with it. For me and presumably you, who have been using Google dozens of times a day for ten years, it's crystal-clear. For my neighbors who go to the locutorio down the street to use the internet because they don't have computers, it's not clear at all, according to some studies I can't be bothered to dig up right now.

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