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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.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

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

This is sometimes ominously referred to as perverse incentive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

The total annihilation of the advertising industry is on my utopian wish list.