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>Don't hate me for it, but my prediction is that the next lifeline Google will reach for Lifeline? Google is hardly in a bad financial situation.
by melq 8y ago
>Don't hate me for it, but my prediction is that the next lifeline Google will reach for
Lifeline? Google is hardly in a bad financial situation.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoI understand that not everyone sees it that way. For me, it matches up with Google destroying the user value of Google sites (like with the Blender videos in the article), and removing 99% of organic search out of their search engine when their algorithm determines that they might be able to convert the query into some cash, or the line they have crossed repeatedly even after being slapped by the EU not once but twice! to make vendors pay for ranking in the top results of search. For me, I've been watching their CPC numbers drop for decades (that, in my opinion, is a reasonable proxy for the 'profit margin' on clicks) and I've seen them pay more and more to direct traffic to their sites as their organic traffic has dried up. I see their business model under siege, their profit margins eroding, their efforts at monetization becoming more and more off putting to the data cows they are trying to milk, and conclude they are in fact dying.