Comment on How did Google win the search engine war?

micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Lehmuusa@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  …and not filling everything with ads. They had very little ads and the little ads they had were not obstructive in any manner. The ads were text, but also formatted in such a manner that it was extremely clear what is a search result and what is an ad. You could not really say the same about the search results of basically any competitor.

  Basically, Google had understood what others had not: Filling the results page with ads drives customers to competitors.

  I’d say something may have slightly changed in Google’s behaviour since those days, though!

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