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[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 163 points 11 months 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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

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

[-] stockRot@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure it's a search engine...

[-] Kuragi2@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 11 months 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.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] CosmoNova@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Destraight@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

It's not just an advertising service. I can also get info from it as well. Like if I ask how many national parks are in Wyoming, or is it ok for me to brush my dog's fur if it's been 2 weeks since his surgery.. those 2 search results did not show me advertisements of camping tents, or a dog brush on Amazon, it gave me the info i wanted right off the bat. So you are wrong

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months 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.

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