Do Not Trust Google
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Do Not Trust Google
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#3> As people increasingly are using search to navigate the web (as opposed to typing a URL into the address bar), this traffic increases, those people see more ads, Google makes more money.
Pardon my ignorance but I thought all of Googles search advertising was pay per click and not pay per impression?
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#4"- what kind of users go to that websites (and does the user searching fit that profile)?
- how much traffic does the website get?
- how relevant the content is to the search term (SEO magic)?
- and, most importantly, does this website fit an acceptable narrative?"
Google analytics seems like a real trojan horse. Surveillance with a side of analytics. Google benefits much more from such a product themselves, compared to the site owner/manager, who supposedly gets thses analytics 'for free'. It's all such a clever and deceptive trick: "just install this small GA snippet and maybe use our tag manager and get detailed insights". I know it's nothing new, but sometimes it just dawns on me how socially accepted all this trickery has become...
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#5> As people increasingly are using search to navigate the web (as opposed to typing a URL into the address bar), this traffic increases, those people see more ads, Google makes more money. Pardon my ignorance but I thought all of Googles search advertising was pay per click and not pay per impression?
The ads appear above search results and so are often clicked on.
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#6> As people increasingly are using search to navigate the web (as opposed to typing a URL into the address bar), this traffic increases, those people see more ads, Google makes more money. Pardon my ignorance but I thought all of Googles search advertising was pay per click and not pay per impression?
Google puts ads organic search results, so there's a good chance your users will click your ad instead of the search result. And if you don't advertise, then your ad-buying competitors will show up in search results ahead of your own site, if your site shows up at all: https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/gvdsu1/entire_googl...
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#7> You don't have to agree with them politically to see that Google is applying different standards to conservative content than to more liberal content.
Or, perhaps a balanced set of standards is being applied, and the author's Overton Window is off-kilter, and the supposedly "(merely) conservative" content described therein remains outside of the actually-balanced metric for search ranking?
(Granting, yes, perfect balance for any actor or reference frame is impossible; and accepting that some degree of filtering-scare-quotes-censorship is a positive, pro-social quality in a search engine.)
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#8invidio.us appears to be shutting down, which is a shame, as I was happy to learn there was a sort of startpage.com for youtube.
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#9The world would be a better place without Breitbart and Stormfront.
If you think otherwise, leave a reply here. I would love to hear why you disagree. Otherwise you are just a closet racist.
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#10> You don't have to agree with them politically to see that Google is applying different standards to conservative content than to more liberal content. Or, perhaps a balanced set of standards is being applied, and the author's Overton Window is off-kilter, and the supposedly "(merely) conservative" content described therein remains outside of the actually-balanced metric for search ranking? (Granting, yes, perfect b…
Yeah... using Breitbart as an example was really unconvincing.
I recently spent an hour of my life trying to convince an acquaintance that a video she found on breitbart claiming the "Frontline Doctors of America" were fighting to expose a conspiracy to suppress a 100% effective covid-19 cure was faked.
That's not "conservative" content, that's propaganda that puts people people in imminent physical danger.