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And now the majority of the first page of results on Google are ads.

• alphabetting 5y ago
  80% of queries have no ads
  • adventured 5y ago
    Which makes sense, that means they can't fill the inventory for those searches. The majority of queries likely yield garbage these days and or are just searches for things like conversions, definition look-ups, searches for the homepage of gmail or facebook (which is how many older people get back to those places), or people wanting to go directly to a specific page on Wikipedia (knowing that's half of what Google is good for now) and countless other similar searches. It's quite amusing that so much of Google's value is now in being a glorified link generator for Wikipedia and Reddit.