Can you elaborate on the business model of a search engine that has no ads?
rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Separate the search engine from anything that stinks of advertising so it can return to what it’s supposed to do: return the most relevant results.
Because even appending udm=14 only gets rid of promoted links and in-page advertising, it does f**k-all to correct manipulated search results.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
The only business model that really works is charging people to use it, like Kagi is doing.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I get the feeling a lot of people would complain about Google search doing that too.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
even appending
udm=14FYI all this is doing is going to the “Web” tab of the results. You can just click it instead of modifying the URL.
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
And chrome from everything else too
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Chrome doesn’t make any money. How is it supposed to support itself as a separate company?
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It doesn’t have to be free. People used to pay for licensed software with money instead of their private data. We can do that again, or there’s still open source options like Firefox and it’s derivatives.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
No business in their right mind is going to just disable advertising altogether. There’s no other viable way to support a search engine. Google search has been supported by advertising since day 1.
They can fix search without removing advertising, they’re just going to have to earn it instead of paying other service providers to make it the default.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A decentralized search engine, running on something like what Locutus (neo-Freenet) is intended to be, can work without a business.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Okay but no non-business is going to buy Google Search…