12-29-2016, 08:06 PM
(12-29-2016, 04:32 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: It's an analogy. Owners aren't going to purposely serve shitty food because they will go out of business. If Google regularly serves up false information people will use other search engines and Google's revenue will suffer. Thus it is in Google's own best interest to provide the most accurate information.
If you want to make an analogy with balut; will you pay for real balut or imaginary balut? I doubt people will continue to patronize the the place selling the imaginary balut.
Except Google has way more market power in its industries than any restaurant has in the restaurant business. Google is also heavily vested in other areas and products aside from its search results. You can reasonably expect a restaurant to go under if its food sucks; it's the restaurants' only source of revenue. You'd have a much harder time proving that googles' revenues would be harmed at all by not changing its algrothim, yet alone to the point to where it would lose out to the few competitors it actually has.
