I didn’t have any premade taco seasoning so I was going through the spices to make my own…wife has some pumpkin spice in there and I was immediately annoyed by the thought.
Just to return to this as Google is getting sued in an antitrust case right now in the US, which they are very likely to lose (similar to Microsoft in the 1990s).
57% of Google’s revenue comes from search ads.
Thats no “value-add”. That is rent-seeking behavior that is clearly distorting the market.
Google controls 90-95% of the global search market.
57% of their revenues come from search ads.
When you say search optimisation delivers what people want to “see” that is not strictly true.
It delivers what maximises Google’s bottom line.
These are not the same things.
And thats my main gripe with this issue. There are rent-seeking nudges by a monopoly (Google) that create the current search landscape.
Piggy-backing off this system is problematic, and if that is an entities main source of income, I would be concerned (because its very much at risk if Google loses this antitrust case)
Edit: Ok I see your 90-95% from the Guardian article (not sure if I believe it because Guardian sometimes gets things wrong. Even so, I still read it frequently).