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> 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....
But the answer is probably embedded in that sentence. If 1% of searches use it, that's a fairly huge volume of traffic.
> 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....
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.
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.
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.
So at the moment, for search engine supremacy, you have MS & Google going head to head using different methods to track people online.
I'm surprised Apple doesnt do their own search engine for their products, its really not that hard to do imo!
Aha! I'd have never noticed this Easter egg if I didn't see the article.
It's like the last little bit of personality Google has left.
The article loses a lot of credibility when it just casually accuses Google of being white supremacists as though nobody could dispute this.
Serious question, if the article had only made the first two casual accusations, but omitted the third,would you have still thought it lacked credibility?
Side note, accusing someone of white supremacy is subtly different from, and to my ears less strident than outright calling them a white supremacist. If I am a jaywalker, it could mean that I've committed one, a few, or many acts of jaywalking, even without my knowledge. It's a mere statement of fact. But if I were a "jaywalkist," if such a term existed, it would more likely mean that I have a personal philosophy that Jaywalking Is Good, or at least, that I was a blatant and habitual practitioner of transgressive traversals. It says something about my essential character in the eyes of my accuser.
> 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....
I was a Googler many, many moons ago and IIRC this actually came up in orientation.