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The design pushing organic search results down does seem like a conflict of interest between showing the user the best possible search results and showing the u
by Zak 7y ago
The design pushing organic search results down does seem like a conflict of interest between showing the user the best possible search results and showing the user advertisements.
On a 1200px tall desktop screen with adblocking turned off, I see four ads that look like search results with a small "Ad" marker next to them, then a map. One map search result is visible on the first screen. When I scroll, there are three map search results, then three organic web search results. These are followed by four suggested queries, three more organic web search results, then four news stories before I get to the rest of the results.
I'm not sure I'd call this evil, but Google used to be explicitly anti-evil and this is very much not that.