Wonder how long it will take someone to find a prompt to get rid of ads? Im guessing less than 3 days
Our approach to advertising
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Re: Our approach to advertising
#112This sounds exactly like what Google used to say about search results. Just a few ads, clearly separated from organic results, never detracting from the core mission of providing the most effective access to all the world’s information. (And certainly not driven by a secret profile of you based on pervasive surveillance of your internet activity.)
I mean, Google Ads are still clearly separated and are labeled as such (there's even a "hide sponsored results" button. Not sure why people even click on the ads when the actual result is right below but that's not usually me.
This is not how most users perceive it. To us techies, sure. Whenever I watch any regular person using Google though they invariably always click whatever the top result is (usually sponsored) and don't see any distinction.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, Google Ads are still clearly separated and are labeled as such (there's even a "hide sponsored results" button. Not sure why people even click on the ads when the actual result is right below but that's not usually me.
Step 1: Google made an excellent search engine where the top result is often the right choice for many common queries. Step 2: Sell the top result slot. Step 3: Profit.
That's why it makes a cool 100 billion in profit every year. It's one of the best money printers ever conceived, because it controls the distribution. We'll see how OpenAI does.
Re: Our approach to advertising
#114> We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and we never sell your data to advertisers.
This means little. Anyone that has your data could potentially feed it in to do their own task.
Re: Our approach to advertising
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, Google Ads are still clearly separated and are labeled as such (there's even a "hide sponsored results" button. Not sure why people even click on the ads when the actual result is right below but that's not usually me.
This is not how most users perceive it. To us techies, sure. Whenever I watch any regular person using Google though they invariably always click whatever the top result is (usually sponsored) and don't see any distinction.
Sure, but then the advertising model is working then, at least for Google and the companies that pay them. If people don't want to read a big heading literally called sponsored results [0] then I don't know what to tell them. Or they just don't care because they're not paying anything to click.
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#116I think Google has already shown that in the long run, people accept ads and prefer them to paying a subscription fee. If that weren’t true, then YouTube Premium would have double-digit % of youtube users and Kagi Search would be huge.
YouTube premium being $14 a month is a scam. I very much doubt that they earn $14/month out of my ad viewing.
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#117So now they're competing with Google.
Big G will crush them. No "ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity." Just doing a desperate money grab.
Re: Our approach to advertising
#118This sounds exactly like what Google used to say about search results. Just a few ads, clearly separated from organic results, never detracting from the core mission of providing the most effective access to all the world’s information. (And certainly not driven by a secret profile of you based on pervasive surveillance of your internet activity.)
(In)famously, Google's motto used to be "Don't be evil" Scary to think about, if moving away from "Don't be evil" is the precedent for an "AGI company"
In a way, it's honest that they left it. Other companies wouldn't find issue in being blatantly evil while keeping the motto.
Re: Our approach to advertising
#119Stop glazing google