{"id":5468,"date":"2020-01-25T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2020-01-25T08:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:30:40","slug":"googlegate-google-is-no-longer-a-search-engine-its-a-global-ad-delivery-network-newly-designed-to-drive-advertising-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=5468","title":{"rendered":"<b>GOOGLEgate<\/b>: Google is no longer a search engine, it&#8217;s a global ad delivery network newly designed to drive advertising revenue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Google Search Results All Now Driven by Advertising Revenue?<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Stephen E. Arnold<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115062\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phibetaiota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hack-2-Missing-Information.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-115062 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phibetaiota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hack-2-Missing-Information.jpg?resize=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phibetaiota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hack-2-Missing-Information.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phibetaiota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hack-2-Missing-Information.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" data-attachment-id=\"115062\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/phibetaiota.net\/2010\/11\/2010-the-ultimate-hack-re-inventing-intelligence-to-re-engineer-earth-chapter-for-counter-terrorism-book-out-of-denmark\/hack-2-missing-information\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phibetaiota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hack-2-Missing-Information.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hack 2 Missing Information\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phibetaiota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hack-2-Missing-Information.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phibetaiota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hack-2-Missing-Information.jpg?fit=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on Image to Enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Story and link below the fold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweet Insight: Half Right<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DarkCyber spotted a Tweet about Google search results. You can find the information at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/craigmod\/status\/1219644556003565568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this link<\/a>. The insight is that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s something strange about the recent design change to google search results, favicons and extra header text: they all look like ads, which is perhaps the point?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What if every search result is an ad, an ad driver, or an ad component?<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that the results are shaped to generate revenue, not information.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/phibetaiota.net\/2020\/01\/stephen-e-arnold-google-search-results-all-now-driven-by-advertising-revenue\/\">https:\/\/phibetaiota.net\/2020\/01\/stephen-e-arnold-google-search-results-all-now-driven-by-advertising-revenue\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Search Results All Now Driven by Advertising Revenue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}