Is it just me or is Facebook putting more ads inside the feeds these days? When I scroll down, I feel like there’s more ads than before. I just to comment on this kind of thing…
Sometimes a company can dominate the market for quite a number of years. But I think we’re probably gonna see some pretty big changes for Google in the next year or so, and they followed a similar pattern of slowly adding more and more advertisements to their search results.
I remember when Google was just getting started around 1999 and it was clearly the best search engine. They had zero ads in their results and then it was a big deal when they had just one at the top and then they added some ads at the right side of the page. That was such a big deal. Then slowly every point where many of the keywords have no actual real search results except ads above the fold of the page. Now there are actually some search results where you have to scroll down to see a real search result. Recently, they’ve even added their AI results which makes you have to scroll even further, sometimes beyond 1000 pixels.
And what we’re seeing now is a new technology, ChatGPT coming along for some other Chatbot as well. They are going to start to replace Google in many of the different key areas where people are using Google now. Google will still remain a strong company, but Google became unreliable as a straight up search engine a long time ago.
I remember talking to someone who actually worked for a Google ads a long time ago and complaining how the ads were dominating the top of the page and they asked me this question: don’t you think the pay ads are actually better search results than before? And of course, I thought the answer was no. The best search result is the research result that is there because it is the best search result not because someone paid for it. But I thought it was telling how in a bubble this Google employee was.
I guess in the near future, some of the tech technologies are going to be changing around and the dominant players may be finding themselves having difficulty maintaining the market share they have enjoyed for many years.