There’s a good article about how a few years ago the search division at Google rolled out improvements to search but then the ad division complained that revenue was being impacted because people spent less time looking through search results and thus ended up seeing and clicking fewer ads. The executives came out on the side of the ad division and Google rolled back a bunch of those improvement apparently.
I guess this mostly came out in some court case where a bunch of emails about it were released
it’s not just google. over in windows-land, informational text and documentation that used to be presented in locally-stored help files or displayed on screen are now links to bing searches that open in edge. because having documentation isn’t profitable, i guess.
There’s a good article about how a few years ago the search division at Google rolled out improvements to search but then the ad division complained that revenue was being impacted because people spent less time looking through search results and thus ended up seeing and clicking fewer ads. The executives came out on the side of the ad division and Google rolled back a bunch of those improvement apparently.
I guess this mostly came out in some court case where a bunch of emails about it were released
it’s not just google. over in windows-land, informational text and documentation that used to be presented in locally-stored help files or displayed on screen are now links to bing searches that open in edge. because having documentation isn’t profitable, i guess.