From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
Don Y wrote:
> On 1/27/2026 6:45 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> > Don Y wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >> ...How is providing
> >> 70,000 hits going to improve the shopping experience for this POTENTIAL
> >> customer?
> >
> > The first 10 hits will generate advertising revenue for the search
> > engine. That's what it is there to do; you are the product, not the
> > customer.
>
> At a *store's* web site, the goal is for the store to sell a
> PRODUCT that they have in stock (as known by the literal description
> of the item on THEIR web page).
>
> They gain nothing if they point me at products that are not what I
> expressly sought. All 73,000 of them!
They don't write their own websites, they pay an 'expert' to fill in a
template provided by one of the big players. The 'search' feature is
ultimately controlled by the major search engines, not by the store.
Some websites are fixed and the client has to pay the webmaster every
time they want to update it - so they don't. Even if they have the
option to update the website themselves, to reflect their current stock,
they soon discover it is a huge chore for smaller businesses with
constant stock changes, so they give up and the information will be
wrong anyway.
It's all painting by numbers these days. I have had several
hand-written customised websites taken off me and handed to 'experts'
who replace them with content-free template rubbish with huge graphics
that looked good to the client. At least one of my clients had the
decency to come back to me and ask me to reinstate his old website as
the 'improved' one was useless.
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