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The cost is possibly losing trust in Google search. It's a pretty big cost, and one of the reasons Google invests so heavily in stopping bad ads.
by shadowgovt 4y ago
The cost is possibly losing trust in Google search. It's a pretty big cost, and one of the reasons Google invests so heavily in stopping bad ads.
- Nextgrid 4y agoThere's no downside to losing trust as long as you have a monopoly and none of the alternatives are any better (and they are not - Bing, Yahoo, etc - all ad-funded search engines will have the exact same problem). But even if we accept that there is a downside, it's clearly not enough because this problem keeps happening again and again. Whatever downside there is needs to be increased by a few orders of magnitude for them to take the problem seriously.
- shadowgovt 4y agoWhat monopoly do they have? DDG is right there, and better if their competition has a reputation for vending malware links.