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Comparison sites are predominantly not about good search either, but rather affiliate relationships.
by tempestn 3y ago
Comparison sites are predominantly not about good search either, but rather affiliate relationships.
- slig 3y agoAnd borderline SERP spam tactics to get organic visitors.
- scotty79 3y agoSo the conclusion must be there's exactly zero value in good search. No wonder google gets worse and worse.
- realusername 3y agoThat's the same thing for Google indeed, they are getting paid by the search ads so they don't care of the quality of what's below those. As long as the market share is that high, there's no reason to improve anything.
- refulgentis 3y agoThis reply is to a comment gently indicating we've arrived at an obviously wrong conclusion. Gliding past that with "Google [doesn't] care [about] search quality" doesn't add much.
- realusername 3y agoWell, the example given shows that the conclusion wasn't necessarily wrong because Google has the same issue.
- candiodari 3y agoNo there is just too much incentive for these sites to sabotage their search ... so they do, and nobody trusts them to actually find what they're looking for. Amazon avoided that for a long time, but not anymore (imho). These days there's lots Amazon doesn't have, and their search seems designed to get you buying faked results. And this is the case for all commercial searches, but still less so for Google.