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by sweeter 462 days ago
This analogy disregards everything we know and understand about the internet and how corporations operate
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> everything we know

Please demonstrate what you know before making representations about what we know.

The restaurant sells more pizza than pasta, so they put pizza on the first page of menu. The strategy works, people come back for more pizza.

Google facilitates conversions by presenting paid results relevant to search intent. If nobody ever clicked paid results and converted, businesses wouldn't buy those paid spots. Admittedly, Google makes tracking success of paid ad spending a confusing nightmare, but not impossible to work out with some effort.

If there's only 10 organic spots on the highly sought after page 1, paid search is a way to fight it out in the market. Fair enough?

It's a balance of:

  * Running a search engine business.
  * Providing quality paid results that match search intent
  * Surfacing quality organic results that match search intent
  * Allowing various ways to filter and access results according to refined search intent, for example advanced search tools or other channels such as image, shopping search, maps etc.