Google is testing verified checkmarks in search (www.theverge.com)
from luciole@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 05 Oct 2024 02:03
https://beehaw.org/post/16392705

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/23941424

Blue ticks, but for business web links.

#technology

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luciole@beehaw.org on 05 Oct 2024 02:03 next collapse

I wonder how much they’ll charge for it.

bizarroland@fedia.io on 05 Oct 2024 05:25 collapse

The playbook as I understand it is that they offer a community improvement for free at first to get you hooked and then once everyone is entirely reliant upon it that's when they do the rug pull.

So there is a good chance that Google search will improve for the next 6 to 18 months while they are doing this just know that this is a temporary reprieve from the enshittification solely to prime the engine for the enshittification to get massively worse.

suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml on 05 Oct 2024 02:45 next collapse

Thus forcing everone to wonder why, if they believe some results are fraudelent, they are showing them to us at all.

Hirom@beehaw.org on 05 Oct 2024 07:35 collapse

Hovering over a checkmark will display a message that explains “Google’s signals suggest that this business is the business that it says it is,” which is determined by things like

I guess this due diligence cost time and money. And doing this due diligence for every ad customer might affect their bottom line.

Gamers_mate@beehaw.org on 05 Oct 2024 05:06 next collapse

Lets trust the company with an illegal monopoly with verification checkmarks I am sure nothing will go wrong.

Sina@beehaw.org on 05 Oct 2024 08:09 collapse

Luckily duck is good enough-ish.

maxprime@lemmy.ml on 05 Oct 2024 10:41 next collapse

Anyone who has had to troubleshoot anything Windows related knows just how useless anything from a Microsoft website is.

megopie@beehaw.org on 06 Oct 2024 07:51 next collapse

How much will it affect ranking in the search algorithm? When will they announce the asking price? What about legitimate sites that cannot pony up that inevitable price?

Call me conspiratorial but this seems like a way to further subjugate civil society to cooperate society. . “Oh well, they couldn’t make a profit to pay for the blue check, so they’re not legitimate”

Mubelotix@jlai.lu on 06 Oct 2024 09:24 collapse

Can’t affect the ranking in the EU as that would be considered advertising. But it will drive more clicks anyway

madjo@feddit.nl on 06 Oct 2024 08:45 collapse

Next up, a paid Google subscription for a blue check mark in the search results.