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Yeah, just what've been saying for some time now. As Google is struggling for growth, it'll squeeze ad revenue off the extant web, turning it into a piece of sh

Yeah, just what've been saying for some time now. As Google is struggling for growth, it'll squeeze ad revenue off the extant web, turning it into a piece of shit even more than it is already. The same thing happened with eg. free PHPbb forum providers in early 2000s which were plastered with banner ads more and more (many mobile sites are like this already). I don't see a way that Google can win this race to the bottom, and neither do I see any reason for content creators to even bother with Google Search and Google Analytics; they will just direct your visitor's precious profile data to your competitor spending more on AdWord bids than you. FYI: see also [1] and [2] as additional upcoming measures by Google [1]: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-mobile-first-indexing-for.html https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-mobile-... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCLxiN_dpjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCLxiN_dpjU

Guidii 6y ago
Your argument assumes this is a fixed-sum game? The story changes if the web continues to grow and more folks do more business over the web.
- AlexandrB 6y ago
  It is a fixed-sum game for Google's search product. There's only so many searches that people can/will do in a day - we're probably nearing that limit - and Google already has >70% marketshare in search. The only way to increase revenue is to get more money per-search. Hence the increased number of sponsored placements and other revenue generators on the first page of results.
mikro2nd 6y ago
So time, then for a robots.txt with User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: / ? (Of course one would have to find an exhaustive list of all the web-spiders they have and their UA strings, but you get my point...)
- shirakawasuna 6y ago
  They could just ignore it, right? Or do any new rules actually require honoring robots.txt?
  - occamrazor 6y ago
    All major search engines follow robots.txt

Guidii 6y ago

Your argument assumes this is a fixed-sum game? The story changes if the web continues to grow and more folks do more business over the web.

AlexandrB 6y ago
It is a fixed-sum game for Google's search product. There's only so many searches that people can/will do in a day - we're probably nearing that limit - and Google already has >70% marketshare in search. The only way to increase revenue is to get more money per-search. Hence the increased number of sponsored placements and other revenue generators on the first page of results.

mikro2nd 6y ago

So time, then for a robots.txt with User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: / ? (Of course one would have to find an exhaustive list of all the web-spiders they have and their UA strings, but you get my point...)

shirakawasuna 6y ago
They could just ignore it, right? Or do any new rules actually require honoring robots.txt?
- occamrazor 6y ago
  All major search engines follow robots.txt