Number of search queries is such a bad metric for quality of your product. If your search is trash then the user is going to need more queries to get a satisfactory answer. That is, until they stop using your service of course.
yah, that’s the point. They go for queries because each query, theoretically, means more ad views and more ad views means more money. So they made the search worse to increase query count.
Like, this was intentional and understood internally. Not saying the people who actually carried it out liked what they were doing, but management said to make number go up, so they did.
Number of search queries is such a bad metric for quality of your product. If your search is trash then the user is going to need more queries to get a satisfactory answer. That is, until they stop using your service of course.
yah, that’s the point. They go for queries because each query, theoretically, means more ad views and more ad views means more money. So they made the search worse to increase query count.
Like, this was intentional and understood internally. Not saying the people who actually carried it out liked what they were doing, but management said to make number go up, so they did.
I would hope that any competent person can see that this can not end well.
Google must know that they are not a monopoly in search.