From: Larry Colen
I wonder how much money in ads Google earns on each user.
Or, phrased differently, I wonder how much I'd have to pay google
each year to make it worth their while to treat me as the customer,
rather than the product that they are selling? If it's on the order
of $36/year, or a dime a day, it would be so well worth it to me,
because they are in a position to make an incredibly awesome product.
As such, I wouldn't see ads in any of the google services, unless I
specifically wanted to see ads on a particular topic. Plus, they
would be optimizing the experience for the user, rather than the
advertiser.
Unfortunately, I suspect that the amount that the vast majority of
users would be willing to pay for this would be very close to zero.
If I understand it, Google doesn't get ad revenue per user, but per
click. They don't get any revenue until you click on an ad.
Actually, Google's ads don't bother me. I've never found them that
intrusive. Never found them that useful either, but that's somebody
else's problem.
The privacy policy thing didn't bother me that much. Maybe I didn't
really understand it, but it seemed to me they offered a fair trade-off
in terms of privacy vs. convenience, along with adequate ways for you to
protect myself. And they were open & above board about what they were doing.
My problems with Google are all because they keep trying to *fix* the
damn search engine when it ain't broken. They get all full of themselves
and decide they know more about what I'm looking for than I do, so
they're going to "improve" the search ... but they *DON'T*.
Plus, every time they spring one of these "improvements" on me they
change the settings I've already made, and then they hide the damn
button I need to click to turn it off.
I'd be willing to pay a nominal fee for a simple search engine that
would let me finish the question before it provided results.
Auto-complete is *EVIL*.
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