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Re:Google is Breaking the Internet by patrickmay on Sunday May 18, 2014 @05:04PM (#7764417)
> Google's customers are its users.

No, Google's customers are primarily its advertisers. Optimizing advertising revenue has some overlap with pleasing users, as you note, but if a decision needed to be made between pleasing users and increasing revenue, there's no doubt about which way it would go.

Re:Google is Breaking the Internet by grkvlt on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:33PM (#7765230)
They would choose pleasing the users.

I suppose any company that works out how to increase revenue while upsetting and alienating it's users could possibly implement said ideas. But if you're smart enough to do that, I would guess you would also be pretty successful at the traditional approach of increasing revenue by pleasing your users?

Re:Google is Breaking the Internet by EGreg on Monday May 19, 2014 @01:23PM (#7768592)
I often heard that google's customers are its advertisers, and I want to ask why the users aren't considered end-customers since they and their interaction with google provides the majority of the MONEY that feeds the ecosystem that feeds google?