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Google is dead. Where do we go now?

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Re: Google is dead. Where do we go now?

#3

A blog post lamenting the demise of Google Adwords.

good riddance seriously i used to pay like $1~2 a click back in 2010s and remember feeling like a total scam. no way of knowing if those clicks were bots and any campaigns would always have inflation somehow even long tail words that shouldn't.

AI should equal the playing field and promote businesses based on merit and capacity not how much they can spend.

Re: Google is dead. Where do we go now?

#4

A blog post lamenting the demise of Google Adwords.

good riddance seriously i used to pay like $1~2 a click back in 2010s and remember feeling like a total scam. no way of knowing if those clicks were bots and any campaigns would always have inflation somehow even long tail words that shouldn't. AI should equal the playing field and promote businesses based on merit and capacity not how much they can spend.

For now.

I give it maybe 12-18 months before AI results are polluted by advertising.

Re: Google is dead. Where do we go now?

#5

A blog post lamenting the demise of Google Adwords.

good riddance seriously i used to pay like $1~2 a click back in 2010s and remember feeling like a total scam. no way of knowing if those clicks were bots and any campaigns would always have inflation somehow even long tail words that shouldn't. AI should equal the playing field and promote businesses based on merit and capacity not how much they can spend.

I will say I have no experience in the ad space, but surely the SEO/ad companies will figure out how to game LLMs to make their sites more likely to be picked up by it, no? Or OpenAI would just directly sell ads themselves.

Re: Google is dead. Where do we go now?

#7

A blog post lamenting the demise of Google Adwords.

good riddance seriously i used to pay like $1~2 a click back in 2010s and remember feeling like a total scam. no way of knowing if those clicks were bots and any campaigns would always have inflation somehow even long tail words that shouldn't. AI should equal the playing field and promote businesses based on merit and capacity not how much they can spend.

I would be that Openai and Google will find a way to boost the embedded ad in the llm result to you based on an auction on how valuable you and your query are

Re: Google is dead. Where do we go now?

#8
post #4

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good riddance seriously i used to pay like $1~2 a click back in 2010s and remember feeling like a total scam. no way of knowing if those clicks were bots and any campaigns would always have inflation somehow even long tail words that shouldn't. AI should equal the playing field and promote businesses based on merit and capacity not how much they can spend.

For now. I give it maybe 12-18 months before AI results are polluted by advertising.

exactly, enjoy the Golden age people, like the Internet had once...
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