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Google search is not only ad-supported, it is also ad-supporting. it is carefully designed to collect and track your every click to feed their advertising busin

Google search is not only ad-supported, it is also ad-supporting. it is carefully designed to collect and track your every click to feed their advertising business. I suppose google search business model in a post-adwords world could also be "we have enough cash to run this service until everyone currently alive is dead". In the event of google search disappearing, affected people would use other search engines and it would make room for better search engines to emerge which is hardly possible right now as google owns the market.

phpnode 10y ago
> "we have enough cash to run this service until everyone currently alive is dead" They might have the money but why should they give it away? They are not a charity. > it would make room for better search engines to emerge How would those search engines fund themselves? what would their business model be?
JadeNB 10y ago
> I suppose google search business model in a post-adwords world could also be "we have enough cash to run this service until everyone currently alive is dead". But they only have this money because of AdWords. That means that, in this world, Google would still exist, but no-one could come enter the search space to compete with it—and surely that's not a desireable outcome.