The problem is that we are not the customer, we are the product. Google is in the business of selling eyeballs.
Nor is google the only offender. I keep seeing ads from Temu for Butyl Mercaptan; the links go to totally unrelated products. Presumably if I search for foo then I want to buy foo! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of billogden <billog...@optonline.net> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 10:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Links for ESS manuals External Message: Use Caution > I have found google to be useless for locating old IBM manuals. While it is not exactly relevant to IBM-MAIN topics, I seem to see recent google results as having considerably less "accuracy" than in earlier days and considerably more "advertising" or "marketing" orientation. I find I am using it less now than I did a year or two ago. (Even for z/OS-related searches!) I realize this is a fuzzy topic that could be debated at least a dozen different ways but, to me at least, it has somewhat reduced the usefulness of the web. Bill Ogden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
