[dbcurtis]

Imagine a world where the biggest search engine made its money from advertising. In that kind of a world, wouldn’t the search engine primarily be incentivized to show you the results pages with the most advertising, regardless of the quality of the content?

[lupire]

No, because people would stop using the crappy search engine.

That's how the world was before Google.

[dbcurtis]

And that differs from today because.... why?