Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps

Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by sunir on Thursday May 29, 2014 @02:03PM (#7817632)

Hey Josh, I'm genuinely confused by your statement and now curious. Even though you work at Google, you do not see the profit motive in making better search result pages and why Google is investing heavily in improving the search result pages.

I would imagine you actually do see the profit motive for that activity, and yet you rejected the statement above by saying, "I don't even understand the theory of how there is a profit motive here. How does Google make more money by asking webmasters to hide parts of their site from the indexer?"

Could you explain how these things connect in your view?

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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by skybrian on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:24PM (#7818085)

Google has always said that advertising does not affect search results. This is one way Google distinguished themselves from other search engines back in the day.

There are sometimes quite a lot of ads on the search results page these days, but they are still clearly distinguished, and I haven't heard anything about that policy changing.

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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by tripzilch on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:50PM (#7835793)

Gonna disagree with "clearly distinguished". Most non-tech-savvy people I know do not tell them apart. Especially since the light yellow background got even lighter with time until it's hardly distinguishable on a cheap screen.

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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by haberman on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:30PM (#7818117)

Sorry, I may not have been clear enough. What didn't make sense to me is why there would be a profit motive for ignoring or not valuing "indie" sites.

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