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Doesn’t the amount of ads inserted in Google results annoys you and interferes with how many legitimate results you can scan at once to find a good one?

• endisneigh 3y ago
  no, sometimes the ads are helpful for me, but I'm not really against ads. I prefer for there to be ads so (small) companies can try to convince me to buy their stuff (the alternative for me is basically just defaulting to the big co's with their marketing budget). an example of this was that I was looking to buy some Airpod Max's and noticed Sony has XM5's that are superior and cheaper so I bought those instead.
  • fnordpiglet 3y ago
    You determined a product was superior to another via advertisements? Not using third party structurally unbiased reviews? Wow. Yes, that is squarely googles demographic.
    • endisneigh 3y ago
      no, I did not know about the XM5's to begin with. I only was introduced due to an ad, yes. I thought the latest were the XM4s at the time. The ad was a reminder if you will.
    • alphabettsy 3y ago
      I don’t want ads in my searches most of the time, but I get what they mean. That said, I believe searching for AirPods alternatives or comparison would’ve reveled a similar result.
  • kuon 3y ago
    That's surprising to me. I hate ads. If I see one poping I usually blacklist the product. When I want to buy something I do technical comparison and try to find genuine reviews.
    • endisneigh 3y ago
      that's a strange philosophy. pretty much every product has advertisements or at the very least marketing somewhere. it's simply a matter of whether you see it or not. even this post for Kagi can be construed as an ad. it's not a bad thing - now people are aware of Kagi. that's good.
      • serf 3y ago
        companies have an avenue to express their values to customers via behavior. If a company is employing shady or manipulative advertising techniques in order to reach me then I make an effort to vote with my dollar in any way contrary to their continued existence. ads aren't bad, weaponized psychology has the opportunity to be quite bad
      • kuon 3y ago
        Yes, but my "poping" I mean something intrusive. Like someone slapping you. I'm ok with sponsoring, placing products in movie, having ads in my mail... But, having ads being thrown at me when I work and search for something is really something I am against. The other thing I think is really bad, is using advanced psychology to lure customers, like many "free to play" games do.
  • soneca 3y ago
    Interesting. I would consider Sony a big company not a small one. I do think ads can be helpful, I am not against they existing. But I think Google exagerates in how many ads they display on search results. I am curious, how many ads as top results before showing any actual results is the threshold for you personally to be bothered by them? 3, 6,12? Edit: To give my answer, for me, it’s 3. And Google these days often show 3 top ads before the results. I was ok with it when it was 1 or 2. Commonly seeing 3 ads and some rare times even 4 made me use Google much less.
    • endisneigh 3y ago
      the amount of ads are not really relevant, rather how relevant the ads are to what I'm searching for. I personally wouldn't mind of all of the results were ads as long as they were relevant. sometimes some of the ads are very irrelevant, which is annoying for sure.
      • soneca 3y ago
        I don’t think it’s possible to have 12 relevant ads in a page. And even it was, I would definitely be pissed off if I saw 5+ relevant ads. Because they could be revelant, meaning they could be informing me of something I would like to buy at some point, but they would be distracting as hell. I want to know, eg if it’s possible to repair a broken headphone cable by myself, not learning about repair shops or multiple interesting new headphones and cables that exist in the market. About your last sentence, it is pretty clear to me that most of ads are irrelevant most times. So I think you are more annoyed than your nonchalant tone in these comments make it look like