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I'm actually in support of this. It's very important to separate content providers from entities that make things more discoverable. Google's job is to help me
by LethargicStud 9y ago
I'm actually in support of this. It's very important to separate content providers from entities that make things more discoverable. Google's job is to help me find what I'm looking for, not to decide what I can or cannot buy. I see this analogous to Cloudflare not supporting a site because they don't agree with the content.
- maxerickson 9y agoNote that it is extensively filtering the results. Earlier a bunch of searches were returning items that violate their policy ( https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150004 https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150004 ) and so they started blocking keywords entirely. Now they aren't blocking keywords but have reduced the number of items in the results that violate their policy. It's wack-a-mole though: https://www.google.com/search?output=search&tbm=shop&q=black+powder https://www.google.com/search?output=search&tbm=shop&q=black... Triggering spell check is a fun pattern: https://www.google.com/search?output=search&tbm=shop&q=trigger+grou https://www.google.com/search?output=search&tbm=shop&q=trigg... At the moment the second result there is AR-15 parts, while "trigger group" is blocked as a search term.
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