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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results appear first." The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.
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Itamar Turner-Trauring
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Itamar Turner-Trauring
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As predicted by Brin and Page: "we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers." (The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998 - infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/โ€ฆ)

The Anatomy of a Search Engine

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Aaron Brick โ€” ืื”ืจืŸ ื‘ืจื™ืง
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Aaron Brick โ€” ืื”ืจืŸ ื‘ืจื™ืง
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@itamarst Great catch with this source! If only we had spent the interim setting up an alternative in the public interest. (Actually, is it too late?)
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oshy
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oshy
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@aetios Because Google is so synonymous with web search for Normies and they don't have any actual competition they can just do whatever and they won't lose users, knowing that, it just makes sense to keep users on your site longer and thus get served more ads
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bufalo1973
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bufalo1973
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I didn't know. I've been using Qwant for years.
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