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>and I realise that there's increasingly huge amounts of information out there on sites that Google may have crawled before and knows about, but doesn't want to

>and I realise that there's increasingly huge amounts of information out there on sites that Google may have crawled before and knows about, but doesn't want to show me for some reason. I wonder what that reason could be.

mistermann 3y ago
I've always wondered why we got rid of curated directories and changed to search for almost everything (and yes I do realize that volume of sites is problematic).
pixl97 3y ago
It's expensive? Why provide the best product when you only have to have a product slightly better than your competition. After that everything is profit. Couple that with a huge portion of new sites seem to be bot generated shit that's copied from other places on the internet it seems Google has given up on the open web.
- moffkalast 3y ago
  Not sure why they'd care, they have effectively infinite money from adsense.
  - marcosdumay 3y ago
    As long as people don't abandon search, yeah, they do. If they lose their absolute dominance in search, they will automatically have competition on adsense too. Or maybe Google disagrees with my assessment, but I can't imagine what kind of inside information would make them do that. It looks like a very clear and inescapable reality to me.
  - pixl97 3y ago
    You should know that's not how capitalism works. They have to keep making more money per dollar every year or they get punished in the market. They've tapped out on their limits of growth and now actual costs are increasing due to floods of automated crap at levels far beyond what we had in the past.
    - moffkalast 3y ago
      They have a practical monopoly on web and mobile ads, if they really are stagnating then all they need to do is jack up prices by a fraction of a cent and it's already billions in profit. I'm sure they have no problem increasing revenue over time. Given how stupidly common ads are, increasing prices and upping scarcity would be a good thing overall anyway.
NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
> I wonder what that reason could be. How would that make them money? Here, instead have a few links to irrelevant videos that bring in ad revenue!

mistermann 3y ago

I've always wondered why we got rid of curated directories and changed to search for almost everything (and yes I do realize that volume of sites is problematic).

pixl97 3y ago

It's expensive? Why provide the best product when you only have to have a product slightly better than your competition. After that everything is profit. Couple that with a huge portion of new sites seem to be bot generated shit that's copied from other places on the internet it seems Google has given up on the open web.

moffkalast 3y ago
Not sure why they'd care, they have effectively infinite money from adsense.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  As long as people don't abandon search, yeah, they do. If they lose their absolute dominance in search, they will automatically have competition on adsense too. Or maybe Google disagrees with my assessment, but I can't imagine what kind of inside information would make them do that. It looks like a very clear and inescapable reality to me.
- pixl97 3y ago
  You should know that's not how capitalism works. They have to keep making more money per dollar every year or they get punished in the market. They've tapped out on their limits of growth and now actual costs are increasing due to floods of automated crap at levels far beyond what we had in the past.
  - moffkalast 3y ago
    They have a practical monopoly on web and mobile ads, if they really are stagnating then all they need to do is jack up prices by a fraction of a cent and it's already billions in profit. I'm sure they have no problem increasing revenue over time. Given how stupidly common ads are, increasing prices and upping scarcity would be a good thing overall anyway.

NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago

> I wonder what that reason could be. How would that make them money? Here, instead have a few links to irrelevant videos that bring in ad revenue!