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Google can't even successfully detect the shitty "we copied all of StackOverflow's Q&As and put ads around it" clones. I tend to doubt their ability to do something 100x as difficult.


Can't or just doesn't need to? Their business isn't search, it's ads.


If search quality degrades enough that people stop using it, it will impact ads.


How bad does search quality have to get before people go back to books? Until that point, it's not bad for ads. (In fact, if the ads are the highest-quality search results…)


Or people could go to a competing search engine...




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