But they don’t get attention-public-funding enough to be profitable because of the garbage. The garbage is burying them in search results but also literally.
i don't know if they were ever profitable. But certainly i think there's been a paradigm shift to commercializing everything (mostly through advertising) the last decade or two and if you fall behind, whatever growth you were aiming for goes away and revenues shrink.
And also almost all advertising revenues have probably become centralized with google search, social media by facebook, and youtube, etc. That combined with rising costs, and higher opportunity cost to instead do something else means these sites are biting the dust.
You’re just complaining that the average person doesn’t like what you like, which seems silly. I’m sure the average person thinks what you like is garbage. Who gets to be the judge?
Yeah but once again-who gets to be the judge? I’ve used ddg and other search tools. I think the results are poor. That’s my opinion. I’d rather use Google. You think the results are low quality-I don’t.
Who is right? You for not wanting to scroll past 27 sponsored links? Or me for not wanting to have to go through 27 useless links to find what I’m looking for?
