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Why would Google give themselves less money?
by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Why would Google give themselves less money?
- fsflover 4mo agoIt should be illegal to mislead the users like this. The search terms weren't generic and didn't match anything.
- godelski 4mo agoLet me repeat myself >>>> When making more money requires degrading the product you know we've fucked up
- tardedmeme 4mo agoThat just sounds like business to me. You do whatever makes money.
- fsflover 4mo agoThis is called enshittification. Business behaves like with with the lack of regulations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484
- godelski 4mo agoMaybe it is today, but that's not how it's always been. The idea is that competition means the best product wins. But there's a lot it ways to degrade competition, not just monopolization. We're living in a lemon economy
- tardedmeme 4mo agoThere's never been any rule that the best product wins. Trivial example if I make RAM chips and give them away for free I'll lose.
- ThunderSizzle 4mo agoThere's a lot of reasons, but it's probably how Google makes most of their money - brand names end up being high value ad targets - at least 6+ years ago when I worked in that sphere of things (ecommerce, primarily). It's legit extortion. I guess that's why - because extortion is immoral. Eventually, those paying the protection fees will eventually find someone better to pay or will stop paying when the protection doesn't show up.