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What restaurants did Google Maps show you? Unless you searched for a specific restaurant, you likely saw only those restaurants that paid for contextual adverti
by dougb5 8y ago
What restaurants did Google Maps show you? Unless you searched for a specific restaurant, you likely saw only those restaurants that paid for contextual advertising on that search. (At the very least, you saw the paid listing first, and on a small mobile screen, you may not have scrolled past them.)
The author makes a pretty sweeping claim here and then walks it back in the next sentence. Does anyone else have the experience described? The vast majority of my mobile Maps queries do not seem to show ads at the top, and very few ads show up at all, but maybe I'm an outlier.
- pwg 8y agoThe claim the author is making (note, I can not substantiate it in any way) is that the query showed a list of restaurants, and that the top 5 (or top X) in the list were restaurants who had paid Google for the privilege of being listed first (or at least paid so that their position in the results list was closer to the top than those who had not paid).