tl/dr: email chains used as evidence in DOJ Google antitrust case show internal arguments about drops in # of searches, and how to increase them so that people see more ads. Search team wants to create better search results to keep people coming back.
Advertising team wants to find any way to make people search for as long and as often as possible (“increasing the journey length”) even if it means delivering less relevant search results.
You can actually read many of the trial documents here -
https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-google-llc-2020-trial-exhibits
this file was particularly interesting. https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf
marketing is up there with the most useless, scummiest professions
Advertising team wants to find any way to make people search for as long and as often as possible (“increasing the journey length”) even if it means delivering less relevant search results.
i now understand what i’ve been seeing a whole lot better… any time marketing starts interacting directly with engineering, your tech company is in trouble…
And this is why I consider advertisers leeches. Anything to get more crap shoved in our faces no matter what it costs us, not them.
Up next: should you cut off and eat your own limbs if you’re really hungry?
No, I mean like, really hungry.
The old saying is: “Cut off your nose to spite your face”
Objectively speaking: it would higher your chances of survival.
I think the blood loss and infection risk may be a problem. I think they may have speculated about it in academia though, not sure what the outcome was.
Yeah, and if you’re that hungry that the meat would save your life, you’re in no state to recover from such a devastating wound. Your immune system and ability to generate new blood would be severely compromised.
And then there’s the added mental toll of coping with the lost limb and having to learn to use it, whilst you’re already dizzy from hunger and blood loss, so any chances at other food would be much harder to exploit.
I think objectively it would make your situation much worse.
Well it sure does sound like advertising won doesn’t it. I completely stopped using Google it is so bad now.
Money talks ☹️
I’ve decided to just pay Kagi for my search. I had completely forgotten how it feels to search somethingand actually find it
I have a question if you don’t mind, can you use the same account on multiple devices? I use 3 computers throughout the day and don’t want to pay 3x because is this.
I use it on my desktop, laptop, cell, and two TVs, you should be fine
Yep. No problem
Why not just use SearXNG? They basically do the same thing.