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It is important to not confuse Google Reader/Notes/Chat with Google Search. Google Search is the gateway to Google's vast profits and they put many of their bes
by TuringNYC 6y ago
It is important to not confuse Google Reader/Notes/Chat with Google Search. Google Search is the gateway to Google's vast profits and they put many of their best people on keeping the product top notch. There are probably hundreds of sub-models and thousands of optimizations that would take years to build out.
- zepto 6y agoGoogle search is optimized for driving advertising revenue. A competitor who wasn’t shackled to that business model would have a lot of freedom to innovate.
- lanstin 6y agoI think they win big on advertising because they auction keywords. That was a novel idea and the one really big economic success they have had which funds everything else. I don’t think they need to make search less good to get more money. They do put the add more and more prominently, but the raw search results seem to be steadily improving if you can get used to the idea they are now trying to understand your intent instead of just grep’ing the internet.
- zepto 6y agoIt’s not that they need to make it less good. It’s that they need to make it less controllable and flexible. They get paid for each keyword search you do that generates advertising clicks. Most people seem to disagree with you about the raw results improving. They certainly don’t seem to be for me.
- fakedang 6y agoMy recent experience with Google Search says otherwise. First 4-5 links are ads, the next might be relevant. Page 2 onwards is definitely irrelevant.