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This isn't surprising and it's not AI's fault. Google lives with a structural weakness – they sell display ads directly on websites which get their traffic fro
by iambateman 3y ago
This isn't surprising and it's not AI's fault.
Google lives with a structural weakness – they sell display ads directly on websites which get their traffic from SEO. This creates an incentive the size of the GDP of Cameroon* to direct people to websites which make Google money.
Suppose you search for green goddess salad dressing. Is that recipe website the best representation of that recipe? No, and it's not close. It is a measurably bad, and measurably profitable, search result.
Google is betting, based on trillions of data points, that we are collectively willing to put up with a mediocre experience.
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* Cameroon's GDP is $45B, and Google's display ad business is something like $55B+. Two facts which I gathered by googling. ;)