• @Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    291 day ago

    Businesses get on board and start the horrible ad infestation

    There were a couple years where businesses were “entering cyberspace” and still trying to figure it out. Mostly this involved static webpages, since they saw the web as a kind of yellow pages. i.e. a business’ web page was their ad.

    people are apparently fine with ads

    It amazes me how accepting most people are of ads. I suspect Google’s going to win, and their ultimate contribution to humanity will be forcing ads into everything.

    • @The_v@lemmy.world
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      131 day ago

      Why google became the dominate search engine in the first place was because every other search engine was an ad infested nightmare fuel.

      There is a limit of shit that people will put up with. Google is pushing that limit hard right now. Which is why I no longer use it.

      • @frezik@midwest.social
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        521 hours ago

        Partially. Not really. Page Rank instantly obsoleted every other search algorithm in existence. Nobody was able to get high quality results right at the top so consistently. The ad-free part was a bonus, at least for a while.

    • snooggums
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      81 day ago

      It amazes me how accepting most people are of ads. I suspect Google’s going to win, and their ultimate contribution to humanity will be forcing ads into everything.

      People just eat up ‘personalized’ things so whoever coined ‘personalized ads’ was an evil genius.