Google emails revealing disagreements b/w Product and Advertising teams about manipulating search to drive ad revenue
gizmodo.com.au
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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I've decided to just pay Kagi for my search. I had completely forgotten how it feels to search somethingand actually find it
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.
I use it on my desktop, laptop, cell, and two TVs, you should be fine
Yep. No problem
Why not just use SearXNG? They basically do the same thing.