Dumbing Down Search and Making More Money?
September 27, 2019
Google makes changes that benefit Google. Forbes Magazine, the capitalist tool, however, does not understand this simple fact about the world’s largest online advertising outfit.
“Google Makes It More Difficult To Find Old Images” points out that the ad giant made it more difficult for 99 percent of Google Image search users to locate “old” images. Most of Google’s advanced search features don’t get much click love.
As a result, why make the feature available? The benefit of making Google Image Search dumbed is related to several factors tangential; my thought is:
- Legal hassles related to making images findable
- Cost reduction. If content is not searched, why spend money verifying links and storing pointers
- Ads. Clicking a Web page for an image can display a current ad. Clicking an old picture like the one below is unlikely to provide an ad payout for the GOOG.
There are some options:
- Use Google search operators like those on this list
- Include a date in the image search string; for example, IBM mainframe 1964
- Use the Google advanced image search form which is at this link.
What’s Forbes’ take?
I reached out to Google for comment on this story. I have yet to hear back and will update this article if I do.
Yep, the capitalist tool.
Stephen E Arnold, September 27, 2019
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