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> More than 50 percent of people still can’t differentiate between an ad (redirect or not) and an organic result on Google. Just wow.
by skummetmaelk 7y ago
> More than 50 percent of people still can’t differentiate between an ad (redirect or not) and an organic result on Google.
Just wow.
- newsbinator 7y agoMost people can't tell the difference between an email from Apple and an email from someone with a "from: line" of "Apple". Most people use Google.com to search for Youtube.com.
- TheChaplain 7y agoMy mother did the latter, until I showed her how to use bookmarks and changed the start page to chrome://bookmarks/ She's happy and said "Internet is faster now" :o)
- austhrow743 7y agoIts probably a good idea to treat most first page results on google as ads anyway.
- buboard 7y agoi wonder how many ppl can differentiate between a paid article and a 'real' one
- kerng 7y agoThis is deliberate on Google's end. In fact they keep bluring the line between ads and search results with updates more and more.
- kerng 7y agoThe blind downvoting on anything critical/objective about Google is really frustrating on HN.
- MrMember 7y agoThey're doing this more and more in the Gmail Android app as well. First there were no ads. Then they added ads to the top of the mail list. Now they're interspersing ads between emails. I finally switched to K-9 because of how intrusive it became.
- lonelappde 7y agoI've never seen ads in Gmail on Android. Is there a setting to disable Gmail ads?
- nvrspyx 7y agoAt least on iOS, they only show up if you have the Promotions category enabled. I don't know if this also true on Android or a desktop browser (I use uBlock).