ARPU for ads grows which is the point I am making. It grew from 0 to whereever it is now in 20 years
You’re talking about how much one company was able to grow ad revenue, which not surprisingly went up a lot as the company learned how to do ads. At the same time, other companies saw a large decreases revenue per user: famously, newspapers used to make a huge amount of money from classified advertising. Instead, I would look at the growth pattern of total advertising spend per American.
Since average mortgage is only about $10k/year, I find it plausible to think of such ad-driven annual spend.
Someone poor enough to consider an ad-funded house their best option is not going to have a spending pattern worth $10k/y to influence.
Can we agree that ads-per search are certainly higher than 20 years ago when there were no ads?
Of course, but I don’t see what point you’re making?
their presentation is increasingly aggressive
Your link goes to a discussion of a change to search results which showed favicons for regular results. I again don’t have any internal information on this, but from this looked to me like a change to make search results more informative. After objections, the change was rolled back.
You’re talking about how much one company was able to grow ad revenue, which not surprisingly went up a lot as the company learned how to do ads. At the same time, other companies saw a large decreases revenue per user: famously, newspapers used to make a huge amount of money from classified advertising. Instead, I would look at the growth pattern of total advertising spend per American.
Someone poor enough to consider an ad-funded house their best option is not going to have a spending pattern worth $10k/y to influence.
Of course, but I don’t see what point you’re making?
Your link goes to a discussion of a change to search results which showed favicons for regular results. I again don’t have any internal information on this, but from this looked to me like a change to make search results more informative. After objections, the change was rolled back.
I’m not, and haven’t, no.