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0 pointsrexreed4y ago0 comments

It's Google's prioritization with ads and preferred sites taking priority even over those SEO-optimized sites.

Google would much prefer to be the sole source of your traffic instead of pushing you to other sites. Google's business is advertising. Why would they want to lose that traffic?

Check this article about the Google MUM announcement, which basically says the same thing:

"MUM is part of Google’s long-term shift away from ranked search results and toward the creation of AI algorithms that can answer user questions faster—often without ever clicking a link or leaving Google’s results page. (Think, for example, of the “knowledge panels” that now appear at the top of many search results pages and display an answer from a website so you don’t have to visit the site yourself.) This shift promises to reduce the amount of work it takes to find information through Google. But it’s not clear that this is a problem in need of a solution." [0]

The Google of today is not the Google of 2008. Google in 2008 was a search engine. Today it's an advertising business that would much prefer you not leave Google properties.

[0] https://qz.com/2010802/googles-mum-is-making-search-worse-by...

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shadowgovt4y ago

> This shift promises to reduce the amount of work it takes to find information through Google. But it’s not clear that this is a problem in need of a solution.

Getting people useful information faster is the problem in need of a solution when you're Google. There isn't a point where that problem is solved; organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful is an unbounded goal.

fastball4y ago

Is this just speculation on your part or do you have a source for this claim?

rexreedOP4y ago

What speculation? I quoted the above article stating that, and there's more on this topic. There's a reason for those Infocards.

chrisweekly4y ago

FWIW I upvoted you upthread to try and counter the inexplicable downvotes; to me the points you made are uncontroversial and almost self-evident. (shrug)

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