I don't think that is a safe assumption. There are plenty of documents, e.g. our IPO document, that indicate that we play the long game of providing the best results, and if the short game of getting the most revenue is harmed by that, well, tough. We play that way because the only way to keep users is to please them, and good results are critical to that end.
To be clear, I don't think you are completely unreasonable for believing what you do. Other companies are crappy, so why not Google? But you don't have any evidence, and I think you are way overstating your case.
Let me be a fly in the wall when Huber, Singhal or whoever is Searches' chief is speaking to others and especially Larry Page and I'll have proof. The proof so far is in the pudding, we read your quarterly earnings statements and see your search pages.
I don't think that is a safe assumption. There are plenty of documents, e.g. our IPO document, that indicate that we play the long game of providing the best results, and if the short game of getting the most revenue is harmed by that, well, tough. We play that way because the only way to keep users is to please them, and good results are critical to that end.
Ah yes, unimpeachable evidence, you said so 10 years ago and it was true then and it is true today. Debate ended.
we play the long game of providing the best results
Oh my god, ads in the ads section? What is the world coming to?
> and see your search pages
You mean the ones that are the same as the other search engines' for the specific query you complained about? Or some other ones you forgot to mention in this comment tree?
>> Oh my god, ads in the ads section? What is the world coming to?
You are real funny. The entire page is essentially ads, and 100% of what most users see /scroll to. How many users don't know that they are ads http://www.seobook.com/consumer-ad-awareness-search-results ? The brightest at Google are working on tricking users to click on ads without knowing. The truth is that you work for a money hungry, duplicitous company that engages in fraud, all sorts of fraud. The fact that you have bought the US enforcement agencies http://mashable.com/2012/04/24/google-record-lobbying/ doesn't make it right.
To be clear, I don't think you are completely unreasonable for believing what you do. Other companies are crappy, so why not Google? But you don't have any evidence, and I think you are way overstating your case.