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> 3. Posting map/weather/review content straight to SERPs starving MapQuest/WU/Yelp et al from getting clicks I get why this is included in Anti Trust but I lo

> 3. Posting map/weather/review content straight to SERPs starving MapQuest/WU/Yelp et al from getting clicks I get why this is included in Anti Trust but I love this feature. Recently read a report that now <50% results lead to click which means it is loved by lot of users too.

Multicomp 7y ago
I agree that's a useful feature, but that seems orthogonal as to whether or not it is anticompetitive.
aviraldg 7y ago
Solution: allow these companies to bid for the spot. Like they're doing in the EU for the choice of default search engine in Chrome. Allow power users to pick a default, so we don't have to suffer through terrible third party content and ads. Disabling this functionality will be a net negative for the end user.
FreakyT 7y ago
Agreed -- my favorite example of this is lyrics. Most lyrics sites are horrible, ad-filled messes, and I for one can't wait for Google to finally eliminate them from existence.
- freehunter 7y ago
  Genius.com is such a good lyrics site (good... not great) and it kills me when I search for lyrics and it's not on the first page of results. I don't know why, but I always have to add +genius to my searches to get it to show up over all the trash sites.
  - amaccuish 7y ago
    I second that. So good and clean that I've atually contributed myself. I personally hate Google including say Wikipedia snippets. Quite often I want to read more of the article, and the link is small and at the bottom of the box, often requiring you to click and arrow to reveal the full box. If they value Wikipedia and Genius/MusicMatch so much, they should make it much clearer where they got their content from.
  - pgodzin 7y ago
    from a few years ago: https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/25/google-rap-genius/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/25/google-rap-genius/
- ratww 7y ago
  Lyrics websites are just spam at this point. Whenever you search for song names they take the first two pages and interesting stuff such as news and interviews are scattered around the rest of the results.
buboard 7y ago
or they cant find the link to click. seriously, they are tiny and greyed out and the SERP content fills the view already
buboard 7y ago
i would also love to scrape google s search queries and results pages and make a website showing them. i m sure my users would love it.
- alienreborn 7y ago
  Sorry but some one else already did that before you (http://startpage.com http://startpage.com).
  - buboard 7y ago
    > Startpage exclusively uses results from Google, which the company pays Google for
onion2k 7y ago
Recently read a report that now <50% results lead to click which means it is loved by lot of users too. You're misinterpreting that report. All it tells us is that Google returns results the user doesn't want to click on more than half the time. We can't determine whether that's for positive reasons (eg info in the results page) or negative reasons (eg the results were garbage) based on the fact there wasn't a click.

Multicomp 7y ago

I agree that's a useful feature, but that seems orthogonal as to whether or not it is anticompetitive.

aviraldg 7y ago

Solution: allow these companies to bid for the spot. Like they're doing in the EU for the choice of default search engine in Chrome. Allow power users to pick a default, so we don't have to suffer through terrible third party content and ads. Disabling this functionality will be a net negative for the end user.

FreakyT 7y ago

Agreed -- my favorite example of this is lyrics. Most lyrics sites are horrible, ad-filled messes, and I for one can't wait for Google to finally eliminate them from existence.

freehunter 7y ago
Genius.com is such a good lyrics site (good... not great) and it kills me when I search for lyrics and it's not on the first page of results. I don't know why, but I always have to add +genius to my searches to get it to show up over all the trash sites.
- amaccuish 7y ago
  I second that. So good and clean that I've atually contributed myself. I personally hate Google including say Wikipedia snippets. Quite often I want to read more of the article, and the link is small and at the bottom of the box, often requiring you to click and arrow to reveal the full box. If they value Wikipedia and Genius/MusicMatch so much, they should make it much clearer where they got their content from.
- pgodzin 7y ago
  from a few years ago: https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/25/google-rap-genius/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/25/google-rap-genius/
ratww 7y ago
Lyrics websites are just spam at this point. Whenever you search for song names they take the first two pages and interesting stuff such as news and interviews are scattered around the rest of the results.

buboard 7y ago

or they cant find the link to click. seriously, they are tiny and greyed out and the SERP content fills the view already

buboard 7y ago

i would also love to scrape google s search queries and results pages and make a website showing them. i m sure my users would love it.

alienreborn 7y ago
Sorry but some one else already did that before you (http://startpage.com http://startpage.com).
- buboard 7y ago
  > Startpage exclusively uses results from Google, which the company pays Google for

onion2k 7y ago

Recently read a report that now <50% results lead to click which means it is loved by lot of users too. You're misinterpreting that report. All it tells us is that Google returns results the user doesn't want to click on more than half the time. We can't determine whether that's for positive reasons (eg info in the results page) or negative reasons (eg the results were garbage) based on the fact there wasn't a click.