The Hidden Cost of the Ads Economy

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The hidden cost of theads economy. The entirety of your attention is now mortgage and sold to advertise liwill makes about a hundred and 20 million dollars, more than 50 just in the us. Subscriber, sircangen ah, i think you would end up with us in a situation where maybe you know who will make good profit,. say five, six billion dollars of revenue.

Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free content when we use a search engine. But that world comes with a hidden cost--search results that distort what we find and serve advertisers rather than searchers. Ramaswamy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Google works and why he started a new search engine, Neeva, with a different business model.