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>It probably makes sense for tiktok to advertise to people searching for Spotify It absolutely makes sense to me, OP is describing their experience installing

>It probably makes sense for tiktok to advertise to people searching for Spotify It absolutely makes sense to me, OP is describing their experience installing new apps on a new phone. Someone searching up Spotify because they know they want it will be reminded "hey, lots of people are using TikTok on their phones too" or "hey, you had TikTok on your last device, hit that button to install it after Spotify." Especially since you can just hit the install button from the search pane.

throwaddzuzxd 5y ago
Don't play stupid, the ad itself is not the issue I'm mentioning here. The issue is that the ad should both be displayed AFTER my search result, AND clearly flagged as an ad in the same way the Play Store does it. It could also be a bit less prominent than the search results. Is the Apple community always this way? I came to love Apple products but the community is a piece of work, it's like nothing can be criticized and everything is perfect as it is.
- Grustaf 5y ago
  There's no "Apple community", and if there is I'm not part of it. I just don't think the order (or buying your competitors ad word) is an issue. If anything it would be more confusing to place an ad among the organic results. Plus Google has made people expect a few paid results above the real results. I do agree that they should clearly mark it as an ad, though, that's very important. And strange that they don't, I don't think they'd earn much less that way. And as I said, I think ads in general are a nuisance and my position is that they shouldn't be allowed anywhere. If the official raison d'être of the market economy is that the better products will win out, allowing ads distorts that. Ads lead to a situation where the company with the best marketing team wins. End of rant. And don't even get me started on negative externalities.

throwaddzuzxd 5y ago

Don't play stupid, the ad itself is not the issue I'm mentioning here. The issue is that the ad should both be displayed AFTER my search result, AND clearly flagged as an ad in the same way the Play Store does it. It could also be a bit less prominent than the search results. Is the Apple community always this way? I came to love Apple products but the community is a piece of work, it's like nothing can be criticized and everything is perfect as it is.

Grustaf 5y ago
There's no "Apple community", and if there is I'm not part of it. I just don't think the order (or buying your competitors ad word) is an issue. If anything it would be more confusing to place an ad among the organic results. Plus Google has made people expect a few paid results above the real results. I do agree that they should clearly mark it as an ad, though, that's very important. And strange that they don't, I don't think they'd earn much less that way. And as I said, I think ads in general are a nuisance and my position is that they shouldn't be allowed anywhere. If the official raison d'être of the market economy is that the better products will win out, allowing ads distorts that. Ads lead to a situation where the company with the best marketing team wins. End of rant. And don't even get me started on negative externalities.