I remember when Google said their results wouldn’t include adverts, but now out of maybe 12 results on the first page, 8 of them are ads or some kind of sponsor

I remember when Google said their results wouldn’t include adverts, but now out of maybe 12 results on the first page, 8 of them are ads or some kind of sponsored result. It’s more of a search engine for adverts now than it is a search engine for content, like corporate classifieds. I imagine what the landscape would be like if they had any kind of formidable competition in the earlier years.