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>Search advertising is a win-win for businesses and consumers. If you see it as something parasitic that needs to be fixed Its absolutely parasitic and not a w
by crdoconnor 9y ago
>Search advertising is a win-win for businesses and consumers. If you see it as something parasitic that needs to be fixed
Its absolutely parasitic and not a win for consumers. If it were a win for consumers then Google would not be so fantastically profitable.
Search results on Google are great provided you don't use a search query that indicates an intent to buy something. If you do that then the results turn terrible. Or profitable. Depends upon whom you ask.
- ProxCoques 9y agoIndeed - do a search for anything Google determines to be non-commercial (like "retrovirus", "contract for difference" or "banana") and they simply hand you off to Wikipedia. It's Wikipedia, and not Google, who really own the show when it comes to collating the world's knowledge.
- pzone 9y agoNow that's a bit conspiratorial. Probably a majority of people searching for "retrovirus" clicked the Wikipedia article link. Google figured this out, and started listing it first. Nothing beyond Wikipedia fulfilling its role.