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I saw this myself months ago with my father. He calls me up, and tells me that Google is only showing him ads, and he can't find any actual content. I figured i

I saw this myself months ago with my father. He calls me up, and tells me that Google is only showing him ads, and he can't find any actual content. I figured it was some kind of malware he installed, but nope, I get over there and it's exactly like this screenshot. The entire first screen of results was ads. Then when I scrolled down, there weren't Google ads, but just a bunch of SEO spam. Wasn't gonna waste my time figuring it out, so I put him on DDG, and his problems were solved.

endisneigh 5y ago
lol, OK what was the query? let's see the DDG and Google results side by side. I swear people always say nonsense like this and when I ask for specific queries they stop replying. Check my history if you doubt it. I don't doubt you saw ads, but Google very strictly limits the percentage of the screen that can be ads or percentage of results. If you can find a single query in which every result on the first page is a sponsored ad I'll send you $5 via Venmo right now, no questions asked. people just like saying 'omg all my screen is ads' and then they crop their screen showing like 20% of the screen on a 1080p monitor. >_>
- mikeyouse 5y ago
  I'm on a 13" Macbook Pro, here's what a Chrome search for "Salesforce Integration" with my adblocker turned off looks like: https://i.imgur.com/AkQWJeF.png https://i.imgur.com/AkQWJeF.png 100% ads. DDG for the same search is better, but not by much: https://i.imgur.com/pcpxr4l.png https://i.imgur.com/pcpxr4l.png
  - endisneigh 5y ago
    what's after the fold? Why do you crop it so it only shows ads? so ridiculous. Google will almost never show more than 5 sponsored ads or some combination of 2-3 ads and sponsored modal. same is true with Bing, DDG, Startpage, etc. this scenario of all of the results being ads is nonexistent. again if anyone can show me a reproducible query in which all results are ads, $5 - easy. omg DDG 100% ads !111 https://imgur.com/a/A1bxnVQ https://imgur.com/a/A1bxnVQ
    - Archio 5y ago
      I'm on a 15" macbook pro and also only see ads below the fold. Is it difficult to imagine that most users around the planet aren't working with 27" monitors or whatever size it is you have?
      - endisneigh 5y ago
        Yes, I just posted an image on a 13" laptop on DDG showing the entire page being ads.
    - lelandfe 5y ago
      I suspect you misunderstood what folks are up in arms about. No one is claiming that Google is serving an entire page worth of ads. They're angered that the entire above the fold section, typically on a laptop, is entirely ads. It is nice how passionate you are, though. Also, appropriately, your screenshot of DDG does not showcase all ads.
    - mikeyouse 5y ago
      I didn't crop it.. that's the point.. on the native resolution of my computer, doing a search for that specific term shows 100% ads after clicking "search".. Obviously you can scroll past them, maybe that's why you're confused? Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...
      - endisneigh 5y ago
        > Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads... The title of this post and point of the twitter thread is: "For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads."
        CRConrad 5y ago
        You don't know what a screen is? It's the glass thingy above or beside your desktop computer, or on the inside of the lid of your laptop computer. Sheesh.
- olyjohn 5y ago
  Maybe people don't reply because they don't care about proving it to you, or they don't care about replying to some snarky-ass comment. I saw what I saw, and don't care if you don't believe it.

endisneigh 5y ago

lol, OK what was the query? let's see the DDG and Google results side by side. I swear people always say nonsense like this and when I ask for specific queries they stop replying. Check my history if you doubt it. I don't doubt you saw ads, but Google very strictly limits the percentage of the screen that can be ads or percentage of results. If you can find a single query in which every result on the first page is a sponsored ad I'll send you $5 via Venmo right now, no questions asked. people just like saying 'omg all my screen is ads' and then they crop their screen showing like 20% of the screen on a 1080p monitor. >_>

mikeyouse 5y ago
I'm on a 13" Macbook Pro, here's what a Chrome search for "Salesforce Integration" with my adblocker turned off looks like: https://i.imgur.com/AkQWJeF.png https://i.imgur.com/AkQWJeF.png 100% ads. DDG for the same search is better, but not by much: https://i.imgur.com/pcpxr4l.png https://i.imgur.com/pcpxr4l.png
- endisneigh 5y ago
  what's after the fold? Why do you crop it so it only shows ads? so ridiculous. Google will almost never show more than 5 sponsored ads or some combination of 2-3 ads and sponsored modal. same is true with Bing, DDG, Startpage, etc. this scenario of all of the results being ads is nonexistent. again if anyone can show me a reproducible query in which all results are ads, $5 - easy. omg DDG 100% ads !111 https://imgur.com/a/A1bxnVQ https://imgur.com/a/A1bxnVQ
  - Archio 5y ago
    I'm on a 15" macbook pro and also only see ads below the fold. Is it difficult to imagine that most users around the planet aren't working with 27" monitors or whatever size it is you have?
    - endisneigh 5y ago
      Yes, I just posted an image on a 13" laptop on DDG showing the entire page being ads.
  - lelandfe 5y ago
    I suspect you misunderstood what folks are up in arms about. No one is claiming that Google is serving an entire page worth of ads. They're angered that the entire above the fold section, typically on a laptop, is entirely ads. It is nice how passionate you are, though. Also, appropriately, your screenshot of DDG does not showcase all ads.
  - mikeyouse 5y ago
    I didn't crop it.. that's the point.. on the native resolution of my computer, doing a search for that specific term shows 100% ads after clicking "search".. Obviously you can scroll past them, maybe that's why you're confused? Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...
    - endisneigh 5y ago
      > Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads... The title of this post and point of the twitter thread is: "For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads."
      - CRConrad 5y ago
        You don't know what a screen is? It's the glass thingy above or beside your desktop computer, or on the inside of the lid of your laptop computer. Sheesh.
olyjohn 5y ago
Maybe people don't reply because they don't care about proving it to you, or they don't care about replying to some snarky-ass comment. I saw what I saw, and don't care if you don't believe it.