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Comment by jmye

2 years ago

Definitely more profitable not to. Especially as Google is an ad company, not a search company.

I’d rather see a world with numerous paid/subscription search engines, that are motivated to do nothing but return search results well. I expect you would see some of the SEO crap getting solved.

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w-ll  2 years ago

i cant remember where i read this, but something about how google ranks site that have google ads higher than sites that dont. makese sense, its evil, but makes sense, thats why we get all this scrapped spam. is there any more info on this?

  • Nextgrid  2 years ago

    Intentionally ranking sites with Google ads higher would be a huge antitrust liability, so no way they're doing that.

    On the other hand, they can achieve virtually the same outcome while keeping plausible deniability by just not doing anything that would downrank sites with ads (of which a significant chunk is likely to be Google's).

    Spam sites often include ads.

  • mixdup  2 years ago

    this is like focusing on one single problem as being the cause of the decline of the United States. It's actually a lot of things combining and there's not going to be one fix