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And you nailed it perfectly "Personally, I always clicked to read more if I wanted to know more about a certain topic." The crux is that all those "information
by piokoch 6y ago
And you nailed it perfectly "Personally, I always clicked to read more if I wanted to know more about a certain topic."
The crux is that all those "information" sites want you to click even if you are totally not interested with the story.
That's why you get all those titles like "prime minister was running around naked", so you think "what the heck is going on with our PM", and then it turns out it was prime minister of some obscure country and it happened 30 years ago.
Today clicks matter, page overlay adds matter, subscription invitations matter, and so on. Google cuts significant number of those if you can see a snippet of the article and it is clear that there comes some cheap click-bait.
- hcurtiss 6y agoI guess I'm not terribly disappointed that Google may depriving them of that kind of revenue stream.
- lhorie 6y agoDoesn't it go both ways though? If there's a financial cost for Google to show links to articles, wouldn't it then be in Google's best interest to decrease the quantity of shallow articles that all more or less say the same thing with ever clickbaitier titles, in favor of showing fewer authoritative/comprehensive sources?
- jkinudsjknds 6y agoFewer articles shown is probably correct. But more clickbaity sounds more likely to me.
- pb7 6y agoIn before Google gets accused of manipulating search results to favor certain flavors of news publications over others.
- lhorie 6y agoThey already do that, though?
- pb7 6y agoDo they? Care to share any kind of evidence?
- lhorie 6y agoFor example, google something like "Trump" in the US vs Canada and you'll get different news outlets (e.g. wapo vs ctv). Or watch right wing videos in youtube in incognito mode and compare home page recommendations with the ones in your regular account. Historically, they've also changed their search algorithms to prioritize certain types of web properties over others (for example the Google Panda update). Etc.