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These numbers don't add up....
> In 2007, Marissa Mayer, then a Google exec, shared that only one percent of Google searches went through the button; internal analysis further estimated that “I’m Feeling Lucky” cost the company more than $100 million in revenue per year because it skipped over ad-filled search pages These numbers don't add up....
Edit: 3.66 billion in 2007, so yeah, doesn’t add up.
The article loses a lot of credibility when it just casually accuses Google of being white supremacists as though nobody could dispute this.
And, the credibility was gone.
> In 2007, Marissa Mayer, then a Google exec, shared that only one percent of Google searches went through the button; internal analysis further estimated that “I’m Feeling Lucky” cost the company more than $100 million in revenue per year because it skipped over ad-filled search pages These numbers don't add up....
Please use Bing or DuckDuckGo. If you are on HN you already know that both of them are orders of magnitude better than Google. It's Google's monopoly and anti-competitiveness deter Bing and DDG from gaining more momentum. We should all use Bing or DDG.
> In 2007, Marissa Mayer, then a Google exec, shared that only one percent of Google searches went through the button; internal analysis further estimated that “I’m Feeling Lucky” cost the company more than $100 million in revenue per year because it skipped over ad-filled search pages These numbers don't add up....
If revenue attributable to ads was over 10 billion at the time of writing, then it adds up. Edit: 3.66 billion in 2007, so yeah, doesn’t add up.
> In 2007, Marissa Mayer, then a Google exec, shared that only one percent of Google searches went through the button; internal analysis further estimated that “I’m Feeling Lucky” cost the company more than $100 million in revenue per year because it skipped over ad-filled search pages These numbers don't add up....