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Nicholai | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Roszak wrote that Google's search advertising "is one of the world's greatest business models ever created" with economics that only certain "illicit businesses" selling "cigarettes or drugs" "could rival." - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-exec-said-users-get-hooked-on-search-engine-like-cigarettes-or-drugs/#p3
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Maletic Research | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f0081e1d Cigarettes and drug companies at least noticed they need to keep the product good. I quit Google search way back in 2011 because during that year results for general searches became very poor. I test them now and than and current general searches are even worse. Why does anyone use it is beyond me. (General search example - "makers of LCD panels" ... I quit cold turkey when 1st non-ad result for that returned to me was... Tourist bureau of Cinque Terre site [and I know why])