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brandonwindsonyesterday at 6:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Google stopped fighting spam when they realized paid ads made more money than organic relevance


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realusernameyesterday at 6:49 PM

Yeah that's also my analysis, they got paid regardless of the results so why would they care? If anything, better results would cost more and eat the bottom line.

Now we're 15 years later and suddenly quality matters again as the competition is fierce in the LLM world. However they have been out for so long that they lost their edge.