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Ask HN: Do you get annoyed with GSearch Results ads disguised as organic result?
- jacquesm 7y agoI distinctly remember early Google executives swearing that they would never do this.
- NewDayRisen 7y agoThat is the path to success. Lie to the people.
- GoToRO 7y agoAnd calling it deceiving and banning sites that displayed the ads in the same colors as the site. The ads must be clearly visible! yeah...
- leonagano 7y agoInteresting thread raised by Jason Fried last week: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016 https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016
- NewDayRisen 7y agoIs that Jason Fried from Newsweek?
- Rays19 7y agoYes
- mtmail 7y agoGoogle Trends or other year-end reports on popular queries don't include navigational queries. For example searching for nytimes to go to nytimes.com. When I worked at a competing web search engine the (real) top 100 was full of navigational queries (and lot of queries that will also never show up in official reports, like 'sex'). When I watch family members I think it gets worse every year. Every brand name is typed into the browser URL bar and instead of just adding .com (or .fr or .de depending on country) it goes to Google and they click the first result. Often enough that's an ad and Google earned a few cents by users not typing in .com
- apolymath 7y agoYea well Google doesn't care about your feelings. They care about how much money they can squeeze out of a rock.
- cercatrova 7y agoI never see them courtesy of uBlock Origin.