I'm old enough to remember when a big selling point of Google was that it didn't do this.
Google's motto used to be 'Don't be evil'. They've since deleted the first two words.
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#322not only that, google now has like 10 AI apps, like literally I lost count.
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#323Juicylinks.ai helps rank your apps higher on LLM recommendations like AI SEO
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
> at least ChatGPT attempts to give a paid option. Again, I don't think that'll stop them... Netflix also attempted to give a paid option, but now we have an "ad-supported" plan. I think that same logic of maximizing profit means that even if there are some people paying for ChatGPT, the amount of free money that is sitting on the table means that we will see "ad-supported" ChatGPT pretty soon once the low-hanging fr…
I think the coexistence of ad supported plans is orthogonal to the above. E.g. Netflix still has an ad free plan, regardless of the other plans, but Google gives you no option.
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#325When I search for "midjourney" without an adblocker a bunch of times, I'm getting: - No ads, with correct midjourney.com as the top result, about half the time - A legit ad for midjourney.com with the title "Your Imagination, Unlocked", the other half the time. It's the only ad, and the correct midjourney.com is also still directly below it as the first organic result So both seem fine for me. I've never seen ads on…
I am highly suspicious tech markets do not see realistic average Google behavior for whatever reason. The pervasive belief in tech that Google Search is even passable suggests people in the Valley or even Austin aren't getting the experience most people do. I recall a Googler once suggesting to me that Googlers seeing ads might look like ad fraud to advertisers, so I'm not positive Googlers dogfood how bad this is ei…
> I recall a Googler once suggesting to me that Googlers seeing ads might look like ad fraud to advertisers, so I'm not positive Googlers dogfood how bad this is either.
I wonder what Google execs do - like I really have a hard time imagining them using Google search as it currently exists. Is there some kind of special internal flag that just gets rid of ads for their accounts?
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#326I remember 37signals paying for an ad saying "We dont want to pay for this ad" or something to combat this for their keywords.
I think it was DHH or Jason who shared this somewhere in social media.
Edit: Yep! It was Jason - https://x.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016
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#327that is bad, I think the even worse sin is putting sponsored apps above the app you really searched for so you end up clicking on the wrong one.
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#328Far from everything
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
> instead they got greedier and greedier and made their product worse once they captured most of the market I wouldn't necessarily put it that way because not Google, nor any company, has moral capacity. They don't have souls. What they do have are incentive structures, and those flip when the stock goes public. Pre-IPO: the board is mostly founders and VCs holding paper wealth. Their shares aren't liquid, so the onl…
In the old days, companies were valued on their expected dividend. Share prices didn't move that much, and trading shares took time and had fees attached. You could speculate on share price moves, and people did, but the primary source of income from holding shares was dividends. Now it's the other way around. The primary source of gains from owing shares is speculation on the share price. Dividends are mostly ignore…
While the importance of dividends has waned, we should still mention buybacks and liquidation. They still exist and buybacks especially are an important part of delivering shareholder value. Apple is a great example of returning about 4 times more in buybacks than dividends.
How would you feel about tax-disadvantaging buybacks?
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#330Can anyone reproduce this? When I search "Midjourney", I get an ad for Midjourney (from Midjourney), followed by Midjourney, the site. After that, I get the Midjourney Discord, the Midjourney subreddit, the Midjourney Wikipedia page, and then (inexplicably), another Midjourney ad. That seems about as good as it could be. Edit: I guess I should say that I do agree that the quality of Google Search is pretty poor these…
In a "private session" tab I'm getting on the first page:
- the official site - their subreddit - their Discord server - Wikipedia - Facebook - LinkedIn