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Bit of a baity article insofar as MS can't "admit" they suck at the web and it would be suicide if they gave up on it. I have a question regarding Bing, though
by gruseom 17y ago
Bit of a baity article insofar as MS can't "admit" they suck at the web and it would be suicide if they gave up on it.
I have a question regarding Bing, though. A while back, someone here made a suggestion that struck me as brilliant: that Bing provide an option to exclude web pages with Adsense ads on them from search results. This would get rid of untold jungles of webspam and deprive Google of revenue at the same time. Of course it would also exclude many legitimate pages, but webspam has turned into such a horrible problem that at this point I just don't care (especially if the filter were an option I could turn on and off). If MS did this, I would use Bing regularly. I can't think of any other reason to say that.
My question is: what besides accusations of anti-competitive behavior (which strike me as rather weak in this case, MS being far from the monopolist in search) would prevent MS from trying this?
- epochwolf 17y agoI think too much of the web has Adsense on it for that to be a good idea.
- gruseom 17y agoYes, but pages with Adsense ads on them are of poorer average quality (I'm guessing) because there is so much spam. Google have an obvious conflict of interest preventing them from doing much about this. That conflict of interest is just about my only real grievance with Google; I'm otherwise a happy Google user with no incentive to switch. Why wouldn't MS exploit this? The suggestion isn't that they suppress Adsense pages altogether, just provide an option to filter them out.