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> (Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on Search, Chrome, or Gmail) I appreciate that you mention in your bio that you do work in Ads at Google, which seems
by aspenmayer 5y ago
> (Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on Search, Chrome, or Gmail)
I appreciate that you mention in your bio that you do work in Ads at Google, which seems directly relevant to OP’s point about boycotting Google by blocking indexing. If Google can’t or otherwise doesn’t index your content, Google can’t profit from selling ads that it otherwise show alongside search results for it. If Google de-indexing became popular among a group of content creators, other search engines may not be similarly blocked, and other alternatives to find said content would be found or created, all to the detriment of Google Ads placement, which is a profitable - and inseparable - component of Google Search.
- jefftk 5y agoI don't work on that kind of ad: I work in display ads. If you go to a newspaper or other publisher and see ads alongside the content, there's a good chance that my team owns the JS that handles requesting those ads and putting the responses on the screen.