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They serve such a large number of users who would never pay, I cannot imagine they would ever consider admitting that they could serve better results. That woul
by TaylorAlexander 3y ago
They serve such a large number of users who would never pay, I cannot imagine they would ever consider admitting that they could serve better results. That would be a disaster. They make money off of users from surveillance and advertising. They would never make enough from subscriptions to offset the losses in perception from all the people they are surveilling for advertisers.
- bobthepanda 3y agoI mean at one point that was an argument against Youtube Premium as well. It kind of depends what the ad value per user is, and then charge X% above that. Though maybe it’s so high that it would be an enterprise price level.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoThere is a huge difference between "Youtube without ads or with ads" and "good google searches or worse google searches". Everyone understands that with premium you can pay to remove ads. But paying for better google searches would upend the entire image of google as the premier search engine.
- xnx 3y agoThis is a good analogy, but maybe doesn't put enough emphasis that for search users are often actively seeking information and ads can (not always) even contribute to the usefulness of results. On YouTube the user is more often seeking entertainment and the ads are blocking them from that.