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How Google is killing independent sites like ours::And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    701·
    10 months ago

    Google actually has an incentive not to make search too good. That means less time looking through search results, seeing ads, and less time hopping between 5 different sites trying to find what you need, seeing ads on each one.

    Ad networks are a plague.

    • don@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      Google actually has an incentive not to make search too good.

      This is sometimes ominously referred to as perverse incentive.