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Am I the only person who remembers Google criticizing their competitors for mixing search results and ads in the same list at all? This was back when Google st
by GeekyBear 5y ago
Am I the only person who remembers Google criticizing their competitors for mixing search results and ads in the same list at all?
This was back when Google still placed text only ads off to the side of the results page in a blue box to make them even more distinctly separated from the search results.
- jeffbee 5y agoAt the time, Google's competitor Yahoo!/Overture were 100% pay-for-placement. There was no such thing as organic results.
- GeekyBear 5y agoThe company I remember them criticizing was Alta Vista, which did include organic search results intermixed with ads at the time. >Google may be big with the cyber-cognescenti, but AltaVista is still reaching a lot more users. While AltaVista reaches 17.7% of Web users, Google gets just 7%, according to the latest Media Metrix numbers. https://www.forbes.com/2000/10/20/1020alta.html?sh=68521b3e79f3 https://www.forbes.com/2000/10/20/1020alta.html?sh=68521b3e7... They weren't bought by Overture until 2003.