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Redesigning Search would harm American consumers and businesses

• andrei_says_ 6y ago
  Maybe google could roll back the search design just a bit - to the time when the top 5+ results were not ads designed to look as much as possible as regular search results and deceive me into clicking onto an advertisement before I even see the organic results? There was even a time when all ads used to be in the sidebar and clearly indicated as ads. How would improving the signal to ad ratio diminish my experience exactly?
  • type0 6y ago
    > How would improving the signal to ad ratio diminish my experience exactly? That's not the point, what's important is that it would diminish the good experiences for advertisers; remember who their customers are.
• julianlam 6y ago
  > Google Search is designed to provide you with the most relevant results. We know that if you don’t like the results we’re giving you, you have numerous alternatives—including Amazon, Expedia, Tripadvisor and many others just a click away. Christ, whatever committee wrote this blog post really drunk the Alphabet kool-aid. They can't even bring themselves to name actual search engine competitors.
  • m463 6y ago
    Consumers are not the target audience for this message. It's like when a lawyer says something of import.