And there's no long-term benefit, since it
just risks teaching people to go straight to
Amazon for commercial searches.
Yeah, I came here hoping somebody would have an answer to this seeming non-sequitur.
Google has been utterly useless for "what is the best X?" product search stuff for years, for exactly this reason.
The result in my case is that I've learned simply to not use Google for these searches. That is not good for Google.
The author says "Google, like many of the other tech giants, benefits from an uninformed user base" but I fail to see how that is the case. They benefit from a happy userbase that finds Google useful and therefore trusts Google with their time and personal information.
Sure, Clueless Cletus or Simple Sally might buy a bike from that clickbait bike article but I'm not sure they're walking away from the experience feeling that Google was particularly useful or helpful and wanting to rely upon them in the future.
Google has been utterly useless for "what is the best X?" product search stuff for years, for exactly this reason.
The result in my case is that I've learned simply to not use Google for these searches. That is not good for Google.
The author says "Google, like many of the other tech giants, benefits from an uninformed user base" but I fail to see how that is the case. They benefit from a happy userbase that finds Google useful and therefore trusts Google with their time and personal information.
Sure, Clueless Cletus or Simple Sally might buy a bike from that clickbait bike article but I'm not sure they're walking away from the experience feeling that Google was particularly useful or helpful and wanting to rely upon them in the future.