I AM SO OLD THAT I REMEMBER WHEN SEARCH ENGINES REALLY WORKED!

[Industrial Toys]

It's certainly finance driven. How could you argue otherwise? No money or potential for some = no internet.

This site certainly does not exist because some farts like to discuss flail mowers. Someone is making money somewhere.

 

[Beltzington]

No, you are just old

I just googled your thread title and guess what was at the top of the list?

 

[/pine]

It's certainly finance driven. How could you argue otherwise? No money or potential for some = no internet.

This site certainly does not exist because some farts like to discuss flail mowers. Someone is making money somewhere.

Well obviously it costs money to maintain a web presence...monetizing a web site either by sponsors or strictly donations is a no brainer to curb expenses...

"finance driven" is not a good description of the entire Internet...I'd say only about 40% of the net is there just to make money off user traffic regardless of the content provided...

There has always been just three things that generate Internet traffic...and they are: content, content and content...!

it is "traffic" that sets the value of web sites...not necessarily the content...but it's the content that drives the traffic...

 

[Industrial Toys]

Years ago, I heard that if not for ****, the Internet would not exist! Curious if that is true.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I'm sorry to say, that I don't much pay attention to the advertisers on this site. BUT, if it's only advertiser was a high end custom electric tractor manufacturer, it would never fly. It's the very generic tractor dealers and related implement dealers that (and I am only guessing) pay the bills.

 

[/pine]

Years ago, I heard that if not for ****, the Internet would not exist! Curious if that is true.

It was born and has never stopped expanding in both technology and volume since it's establishment...
it was growing at exponential proportions before the average consumer even dreamed of having a home personal computer...let alone the elapsed time it took for the development of GUI's and the technology to encode, transfer (upload/download) re-encode and display graphics except for pixel matrixed, monochrome images...

IMO a good majority of the revenues generated on the Internet are from entities that you do not even know exist...they are generated by companies that put their data collection/mining scripts (software) on the most popular web sites...

FWIW... social media and news sites are the worst for making money off user naivety...

 

[oosik]

You MUST be right /pine. Most times I use a search engine - I get the most unrelated advertising...........

 

[Zippo1]

This is probably not the answer you're looking for but, if you want a search engine that doesn't track your queries, I'd recommend:

DuckDuckGo

 

[Lelandwelds]

Different people want to be viewed. The do crap like print likely loosely related search terms the same color as the back ground. You can't see blue on blue but the browser can.

 

[IchabodCrayne]

This is probably not the answer you're looking for but, if you want a search engine that doesn't track your queries, I'd recommend:

DuckDuckGo

While it will not free you from the unscrupulous Internet it helps.
Be aware though that every site you visit will track you and force feed you false results in subsequent searches. I've even had sites visited with DDG show up in my Google history.