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cirgue on July 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Books and the open web

> That you presume they have any other goal in mind is frankly bizarre to me.

Google is an advertising company. They are not a search company. There is absolutely no reason to think that their goal is 'good' results. Their goal is 'engaging' results.

VikingCoder on July 13, 2018 [–]

There is a very, very good reason to think their goal is good results:

If users believed they got bad results at Google, then Google could no longer show the advertising.

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