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> Yes, the gamification will be terrible. So what? Is maximal advertising revenue for monopolies societally important? I don't really see how gamification bein
by esrauch 6y ago
> Yes, the gamification will be terrible. So what? Is maximal advertising revenue for monopolies societally important?
I don't really see how gamification being terrible will only cause ad revenue to drop. Surely it will also make the results worse and less relevant to you?
As in, if SEO spam managed to take over the top results of major queries, it doesn't just drop ad revenue but actually makes Search suck, right?
- specialist 6y agoHow could future results be any worse?
- wrkronmiller 6y agoIn the worst case: search becomes completely unusable because the top pages of every major set of search terms is taken up by nonsense blog-spam. That is absolutely not currently the case.
- esrauch 6y agoI actually don't see how "gamification" (adversarial websites exploiting loopholes in ranking) can even result in making ad revenue lower excepting the scenario where it makes Search itself less useful and therefore less used overall?
- specialist 6y agoIDK. My prediction: Ad revenue peaked. COVID-19 is accelerating the decline. Google and others switched strategies to engagement and "rundles".