As I understand it - Google’s new plan is to keep people at google.com (etc) as absolutely long as possible with AI slop and the like. And - this is just my assumption - they’ll cram in tons of news ads into the page.
Yep. Starting in 2019 the Ads department internally defeated the Search department and successfully degraded the quality of the algorithm in order to keep people searching.
This is great! Thank you! I had heard of this exact story from third-hand sources and this is much more detailed. Ed Zitron is great and I have to deal with Google search for work a lot, and I’ll probably share this article with people I know who do similar jobs
The giveaway in the article is the example they give about having an ongoing live search for specific stock market parameters and how the Google search agent will recommend the ‘services’ you need including their market analysis product.
They’re moving away from ‘free’ search to build a sales funnel towards their paid subscription products.
Won’t this undermine googles own ad business?
As I understand it - Google’s new plan is to keep people at google.com (etc) as absolutely long as possible with AI slop and the like. And - this is just my assumption - they’ll cram in tons of news ads into the page.
Yep. Starting in 2019 the Ads department internally defeated the Search department and successfully degraded the quality of the algorithm in order to keep people searching.
I just posted about this above before I read your comment. Here is the article that describes what happened:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
This is great! Thank you! I had heard of this exact story from third-hand sources and this is much more detailed. Ed Zitron is great and I have to deal with Google search for work a lot, and I’ll probably share this article with people I know who do similar jobs
The giveaway in the article is the example they give about having an ongoing live search for specific stock market parameters and how the Google search agent will recommend the ‘services’ you need including their market analysis product.
They’re moving away from ‘free’ search to build a sales funnel towards their paid subscription products.
again??