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Google also did this. One days ads stopped being pale yellow divs but very close to actual results.
by agumonkey 3y ago
Google also did this. One days ads stopped being pale yellow divs but very close to actual results.
- mullingitover 3y agoThere's a great timeline[1] showing how Google transitioned from the 'don't be evil' company to what it is today. Page and Brin at Stanford[2] laid into the fundamental problem of mixed motives that advertising-funded search engines have (see "Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives"). Reddit and twitter aren't search engines, but they're dealing with related issues: the incentive to deceive visitors of their sites in order juice ad effectiveness and boost profits. [1] https://searchengineland.com/search-ad-labeling-history-google-bing-254332 https://searchengineland.com/search-ad-labeling-history-goog... [2] http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
- agumonkey 3y agoare we watching boeingification of the web2 era ?