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Search results differ widely between regions and users. FTA: "If a person in Lansing goes onto Google search..." No reason for companies to target users outsid
by devindotcom 6y ago
Search results differ widely between regions and users. FTA: "If a person in Lansing goes onto Google search..."
No reason for companies to target users outside the Lansing metro area, no one in Boston is ordering BBQ from Michigan. If you're not in Lansing, you're probably not seeing the same results as the people this post refers to.
- shadowgovt 6y agoSure, but I'm not in Lansing (or anywhere near it). And both an incognito and logged-in search give me the same thing for the search query in the article. I'm not talking about the contents of the map sidebar; I'm talking about the big "Saddleback BBQ |" link in the main results and its children. While it's true I do not see the ad (probably because I'm outside the targeting area), even with the screenshots shown in the article, there are two order buttons on the page that deep-link to Saddleback and one ad link. Their complaint seems to be "The ad is more eye-catching than [ed: one of] our order links"... Yes, but it's also flagged as clearly an [AD].