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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
    711·
    9 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
      32·
      9 months ago

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

      This is sometimes ominously referred to as perverse incentive.