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I think we know exactly how Google will monetize this, assuming they keep their search monopoly. Over time the answers will get increasingly skewed towards thei
by rurp 2y ago
I think we know exactly how Google will monetize this, assuming they keep their search monopoly. Over time the answers will get increasingly skewed towards their paying customers. Eventually Google's endless need to increase revenue at the expense of their product will render the results quite bad and everyone will start looking forward to the next paradigm shift.
- _cs2017_ 2y agoCan you point to any evidence that Google intentionally skews organic results towards paying customers (as opposed to, Google's paying customers have the money to afford expensive SEO to get themselves a higher ranking)?
- rurp 2y agoTwo examples: 1. Google intentionally makes search results worse so that users will do more searches and see/click more ads. There was a big thread about this somewhat recently. 2. Ads have steadly taken up more of the results page and become less distinguishable from organic results. This causes users to more often click on whoever paid Google more, rather than what Google thinks is the most relevant result.