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When the majority of the results you get on the first page are paid for, then it's an advertising platform masquerading as a search engine.
by soperj 4y ago
When the majority of the results you get on the first page are paid for, then it's an advertising platform masquerading as a search engine.
- mrkramer 4y agoGoogle claims that majority of search queries do not return ads but the most common and the most popular search queries return a lot of ads as we can witness.
- GeekyBear 4y agoWhich is something Google used to make fun of it's competitors for doing, back when they were the underdog.
- hinkley 4y agoThen they introduced one ad per search, which was a big deal people talked about. Now we don't talk about it enough.
- rco8786 4y agoThat's an arbitrary rule that we've made up. The search engine still exists. The advertising platform would not exist without it. The % of ads on the first page of the search results is a detail of how the two co-exist, not evidence that there is only one and not the other.