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It's fraud, effectively. I've seen a bunch of people that are not tech savvy do Google searches, and they have no idea they're clicking on ads. I pointed this o
by yostrovs 5y ago
It's fraud, effectively. I've seen a bunch of people that are not tech savvy do Google searches, and they have no idea they're clicking on ads. I pointed this out a few times and they seem to not care anyways.
Google knows this very well and they pretend like they're giving search results, but the majority of users are getting ad search results instead.
- verve_rat 5y agoIt is basically the yellow pages on the internet model that a few people tried and Google killed. I'm not sure what we can learn from the fact that Google is regressing into the model they killed in the first place.
- ForOldHack 5y ago"the majority of users are getting ad search results instead." The Majority.
- dazc 5y agoWhat's worse is that it's particularly acute with financial services where most ads are scams.
- zbuf 5y agoYup. Our competitor advertises against our company name, and Google helpfully optimises the text of their ad -- some ML algorithm finds text most likely to be confused with the search results. Optimising for "clicks" is just optimising garbage.