Bookmarked: Three Dots – Rands in Repose

Google would greatly prefer if you didn’t click on X because the moment you do, you’ve left Google and they’ve mostly lost their ability to present you with advertising. You read that right: the reason you go to Google is to find other high-quality stuff that they don’t want you to actually see. My favorite attempt was AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages, where publishers built lightweight copies of their content, and Google served them from their own servers. Yes, you were promised a traffic advantage, but you lose control over design, ads, and analytics. I highly recommend you read the whole article before reading my comments. rands makes three claims - three dots, if you will ;) Claim 1: Google is incentivized to lock users on their properties because it can monetize their attention. Claim 2: AI generated answers reduce visits to the original sources, undermining (current) internet economics. Claim 3: Human generated knowledge on the web is very valuable; a world without the current…

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