Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by cynicalkane on Friday October 18, 2013 @06:37PM (#6574443)

It wouldn't surprise me if most of the people who do a search for "sofas" want to browse shopping websites for sofas. The naturally monetizable searches are going to be searches that users don't mind being monetized.

Google probably has teams full of people figuring out that sort of thing. The problem with maximizing revenue is it annoys people, so if you can figure out how to selectively maximize revenue when it doesn't annoy people...

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by md224 on Friday October 18, 2013 @08:10PM (#6574747)

Then why not show the best shopping websites, rather than ads for shopping websites?

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by nmridul on Friday October 18, 2013 @10:49PM (#6575138)

The first result is Amazon.com. Its not an ad. The next ones are local listings. And don't think they are also ads. Those are search results.

And I think Google did a good job here as most purchases for heavy items like Sofas will be made locally.

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by grey-area on Saturday October 19, 2013 @04:03PM (#6577591)

The first result shown is sofaulove.com, not amazon. It is an ad. The only actual search result is amazon, which comes 4th on the page.

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by grogenaut on Saturday October 19, 2013 @04:04AM (#6575730)

currently their local listings are pretty shit. Theyre worse than what I can find in the yellow pages actually. Search for honda motorcyle repair in bellevue, wa for example. none of the top results are for that. but car dealers eat right into the results.

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