<![CDATA[NSLog(); – QotD: Google Subscription:
Question: With all that Google has, including their new Maps, Gmail, and the pre-existing stuff, how much would you be willing to pay if everything but the basic search features became a subscription service?
His answer is “$20,” but my answer is that I wouldn’t pay one cent, because Google is extracting data from me to place contextual ads. Google should pay me.]]>
2 replies on “You'd pay for Google?!?”
Subscriptions would include “no ads” as a feature, as is typical.
But, Erik, that may be true when you are on Google’s site, but what about all the other places you go where AdSense ads are displayed? If Google suspends placements across its network because you pay a $20 fee, then they lose far more revenue than your fee covers. It just won’t happen.
My point is that your searches on the systems you’d pay for create value for Google everywhere else you go that they have an ad placement arrangement. Paying for Google services would only compound the inequity in the relationship between you and the company. Maybe they should just refrain from displaying ads on their site? But they’re buying services to generate more ad inventory, so that won’t happen either.