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What perspective? The only comments about an ad is in the first paragraph which is just "To make matter worse, some advertisers attempt to gain people’s attention by taking measures meant to mislead automated search engines." [1]

Nothing in the paper states or suggests they are anti-ads. Hell, Ads can even work well with their description of page rank. Display ads along side the search results and if a user clicks it then rate the ad higher and if they don't down weight it akin to what you're doing with non-ad links.

> Returning to my earlier point, please expand your argument about why OpenAI may fail. Let’s aim to elevate the discussion.

Because the counterpoint of Google isn't applicable. You can't be like "X is ok because it's similar to Y and Y was ok.". X (OpenAI) isn't similar to Y (Google); Google always planned to do Ads and it's just their stance of keeping them distinct from results that changed over time. A better argument would to pick a Y of Reddit or something that took years to actually generate revenue.

OpenAI should be fine for quite some time though because what else is there to burn billions of dollars investing for people?

[1]: https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/Brin98Anatom...



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