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Google very publicly announced the changes and Microsoft is attempting to conflate product search with general web search. It isn't shady to create a paid listi
by sbilstein 14y ago
Google very publicly announced the changes and Microsoft is attempting to conflate product search with general web search. It isn't shady to create a paid listing catalog (which is essentially what Google has done with its product search) if people are aware of that fact. While Microsoft isn't lying in this campaign, they are attempting to paint Google as being dishonest with their general search results, something that isn't true.
The quotes on the top banner are all Larry and Sergey talking about search, not product search...a feature which is no where near as popular or used. Putting these quotes on the same page with attack language could easily confuse anyone to think Google was now accepting paid search results a la Overture back in the day.
- Alaskan005 14y agoHow do you know that Google search is pure? I for one can barely see what are ads vs regular search and am deeply suspicious of Google's humongous increase in profits and Adwords revenue this past year after Panda and other updates. Occam's razor and all. Google has changed
- sbilstein 14y agoBoth Google and Bing have ads that are clearly marked as ads on their web search results? How does one know Google search is pure? Start a company, get some press, build pages in an SEO friendly format and start seeing traffic trickle in from organic search without paying a dime to Google. Google has a lot more incentive (as they've proven over the years) to maintain really high quality organic search and paid ads separate. That is what set them apart in early 2000's. When they integrated g+ results, they had an orthogonal incentive (take down Facebook, spar with Bing) but if the incentive is just to make money in the business of search it is extremely unlikely they would pollute their web results with ads.