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Google emails revealing disagreements b/w Product and Advertising teams about manipulating search to drive ad revenue (gizmodo.com.au)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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tl/dr: email chains used as evidence in DOJ Google antitrust case show internal arguments about drops in # of searches, and how to increase them so that people see more ads. Search team wants to create better search results to keep people coming back.

Advertising team wants to find any way to make people search for as long and as often as possible ("increasing the journey length") even if it means delivering less relevant search results.

You can actually read many of the trial documents here -
https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-google-llc-2020-trial-exhibits

this file was particularly interesting. https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've decided to just pay Kagi for my search. I had completely forgotten how it feels to search somethingand actually find it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a question if you don’t mind, can you use the same account on multiple devices? I use 3 computers throughout the day and don’t want to pay 3x because is this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I use it on my desktop, laptop, cell, and two TVs, you should be fine

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yep. No problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why not just use SearXNG? They basically do the same thing.