search engine domination

[Maj. Stress]

Originally Posted by eman

Google (Live, Yahoo and others) could very easily forge direct relationships with porn producers/distributors and totally eliminate the linklist/tgp/directory model (they may already be preparing to do so).

The advantages to the producing businesses are obvious. Most obviously, Google (or whoever) could guarantee a precisely measured flow of highly convertible traffic to the producer's sites. Measure this against the effectiveness of the hit-or-miss affiliate model.

I suspect that Google (and the other big SEs), merely tolerate the presence of Link-o-rama, DD, Tommy or whoever. When the time is ripe they will drop all porn-promoting sites at a stroke. After a week or two nobody will notice that they've gone.

Discuss.

PS - since linklists/tgps/direcories have a purely commercial objective there's no logical reason for a commercial search engine (Google etc) to give them any credence - let alone prominence.

Why would a company go against their own business model? The main objective of search engines is to provide relevant results.

Why stop at porn? There are millions of "hurricane" type sites out there with the sole commercial purpose of producing traffic to promote google adsense. Most of them are now getting filtered out because of duplicate content and a lot of them are just plain irrelavant cookie cutter pieces of garbage.

End users want relevant results for their searches. Remove that from the equation and you are out of business.