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> I hate how the ads people confuse as actual results... Stuff like this happens on other search engines too, not just a Google problem. Well everyone hates it
by squiggleblaz 7y ago
> I hate how the ads people confuse as actual results... Stuff like this happens on other search engines too, not just a Google problem.
Well everyone hates it. Part of the original understanding of Google's onetime informal motto "do no evil" was that "putting ads where they can be confused for organic results is evil". We can see exactly why here.
We switched away from search engines that confused us for Google which, in those days, ran its ads on empty space on the right hand side of the browser.
I genuinely hope historians of the future are able to get the early history of Google right. I guess they probably won't; probably, the only documentation is people's memory and that will fade with time. (I assume Google will still be around in some form or another in 150 years.)