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Google did not really lost to optimization, they enshittified to make you spwnd more time on search (and see more ads)

• no-name-here 3mo ago
  Ah, the argument is that Google intentionally avoids showing you the best results, so that you spend more time searching (and being exposed to ads)?
  • robinsonb5 3mo ago
    I'd frame it more that Google is incentivised to show you the results which are most lucrative for them to display, rather than the ones which are most beneficial for you to see.
    • oblio 3mo ago
      Incentives. Which is why platforms (such as search) should never be allowed to be in the same company with things built on top of them (such as ads), if the combined company is significant for an important market. We used to know better, Standard Oil vertical integration was dismantled.