• @[email protected]
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    1641 year ago

    Google is not a search engine. It’s an advertising service. Their whole business model revolves around a critical mass of eyeballs, which flock to free services. This will never happen for the average user.

      • Karyoplasma
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        21 year ago

        I wonder what happens when the time finally comes and they realize infinite growth is impossible. Black Friday II?

      • IninewCrow
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        11 year ago

        If anyone ever figures out how to charge people service fees in the afterlife … there will be service fees in the afterlife

    • Flying Squid
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      131 year ago

      As the saying goes- if the service is free, you’re not the customer.

    • @stockRot
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      61 year ago

      I’m pretty sure it’s a search engine…

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Por que no los dos?

        Ostensibly yeah, the product being offered is a search engine. Realistically, the product being offered is a combination of your data, and your eyes/attention.

    • GreenBottles
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      31 year ago

      yeah the days of Google search being king or long past over

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Eh, they’re turning Youtube into that and yet people buy premium so I would be careful to make any such predictions.

      • @Wogi
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        51 year ago

        It’s an advertising service, the way they serve ads is through attracting people to free searches.

        It’s much like how a magazine is actually an ad service, but you can open a magazine to any random page and have a chance of not seeing an ad.

        Or like how over the air television is actually an ad service, but you have a chance of turning it on at any random moment and not seeing an ad.

        He’s not describing how Google attracts YOU. He’s taking about what Google actually sells, which is ads.