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Const-me on March 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended witho...

And another reason, Google makes money when you click on low-quality machine generated search results, because these pages are almost always monetized with google ads. This causes a conflict of interests: when they improve search, they earn less money.

jayqd3 on March 22, 2021 [–]

Your remark is very good. How do they balance rich answers which lead to zero-clicks with the revenues which are based on a-clicks? Thanks.

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