کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5078012 1477325 2013 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Search engines: Left side quality versus right side profits
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Search engines: Left side quality versus right side profits
چکیده انگلیسی


- Analyzes a search engine's choice of quality
- Considers paid and organic results
- Shows that two distortions exist: markup and quality
- Highlights importance of nonpaying merchants
- Discusses policy towards Google's acquisitions

Search engines face an interesting tradeoff in choosing the way to display their results. While providing high quality unpaid, or “left side” results attracts users, doing so can also cannibalize the revenue that comes from paid ads on the “right side”. This paper examines this tradeoff, focusing, in particular, on the role of users' post-search interaction with the websites whose links are displayed. In the model, high quality left side results boost demand from users, causing them to tolerate a search engine on which advertisers do not offer the lowest possible prices for the goods that they sell. However, because websites appearing on the left side still have an incentive to compete in the same market as advertisers, an increase in quality on the left side may reduce advertisers' equilibrium prices. I analyze the circumstances under which this will occur and discuss the model's potential implications for antitrust policy.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Industrial Organization - Volume 31, Issue 6, November 2013, Pages 690-701
نویسندگان
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