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The other day I searched for "canned cabbage soup". The mobile website locked into a mode I've never seen before. It would only provide blogspamish recipes for
by StrictDabbler 3y ago
The other day I searched for "canned cabbage soup". The mobile website locked into a mode I've never seen before.
It would only provide blogspamish recipes for canning your own cabbage soup linked through the tiled suggestion interface. Not a single text-style link was returned and none of the results were pre-canned soups. I scanned though page after page without getting anything else.
Oddly, when I searched "canned cabbage soup history" it switched modes and started providing normal results, including the product and Wikipedia.
What strikes me about this is that I was actively searching for a product I wanted to buy. If there's any business case for ruining Google with weird specialty searches it would be selling products.
Why is there a "provide blogspam" mode?
Also, I'm now asked if I'm a robot at least five times a day.
- atourgates 3y agoThis bothers me so much. I’ve run into it a few times, exclusively on mobile, and it is completely useless and completely frustrating. I actually thought some of the “google is dying” handwringing was overwrought until I experienced this. It was just, bad.
- n6h6 3y agoYeah, I've seen that. I'd have called it "recipe mode" but I like your name for it better.
- llamaLord 3y ago> Why is there a "provide blogspam" mode? Because blogspam sites all implement Google Adwords for monetisation, meaning Google can now show you 30 ads instead of just 3 at the top of the search result. Remember, Googles customers are the advertisers and the site-owners implementing Google Adwords, not you. You're the product being sold.