How can you be so certain of the accuracy of your statement?
Who are the users of Google's ads? Companies wishing to increase the public's awareness of their products, those who wish to supplement their income with their written works and those looking to buy something.
How many livelihoods have been built around this market? How much easier has product discovery become?
The wheel is useless without the axle. If google's search results were awful, if they did not make it easier to find information that enriched people's lives - a powerful force in combating unwilful ignorance - do you think people would be there to click the ads in the first place?
Ads serve a useful purpose as a product awareness catalyst, they are a way of connecting seekers and sellers, if they did not help anyone they would not be so profitable. That they are abused and misused is not an inherent evil of the platform. Anything can be turned to nefarious purposes.
Who are the users of Google's ads? Companies wishing to increase the public's awareness of their products, those who wish to supplement their income with their written works and those looking to buy something.
How many livelihoods have been built around this market? How much easier has product discovery become?
The wheel is useless without the axle. If google's search results were awful, if they did not make it easier to find information that enriched people's lives - a powerful force in combating unwilful ignorance - do you think people would be there to click the ads in the first place?
Ads serve a useful purpose as a product awareness catalyst, they are a way of connecting seekers and sellers, if they did not help anyone they would not be so profitable. That they are abused and misused is not an inherent evil of the platform. Anything can be turned to nefarious purposes.