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>but it appears to me that it dismisses all commercial content altogether, which is not what I want Isn't it? You want to downrank for ads and downrank for pay

• lelanthran 2y ago
  > >but it appears to me that it dismisses all commercial content altogether, which is not what I want > Isn't it? Of course not. Appearing lower in the results than non-monetised content is very different from not appearing in the results at all. > How is commercial content supposed to be funded? They'll find a way. After all, if more people turn to ChatGPT for queries than to search engines, those sites are under the same sink-or-swim pressure that they would be under if demonetised search engines were dominant.
  • thfuran 2y ago
    >Appearing lower in the results than non-monetised content is very different from not appearing in the results at all. I'd say it's only technically different unless there are only a handful of results. It probably might as well not appear in results if it's past the twentieth position. On Google, click through rate is already down to ~1% by the tenth result.
  • chongli 2y ago
    They'll find a way. If a site doesn’t appear on a Google results page, it dies. If a site doesn’t appear on your results page, people switch back to Google to search for it. As a new search engine you’re going to be faced with this sort of thing for a long time before users begin to trust you. If a user actually wants to find a commercial site but simply can’t, they’re not going to stick around for long.