> If this search engine ever gets popular, it will just push advertisers from ads to product placements. For me, that would be an improvement over the current

> If this search engine ever gets popular, it will just push advertisers from ads to product placements. For me, that would be an improvement over the current 'cover content with advertisements', 'interstitials', 'user-tracking', 'privacy-abusing', 'displace legitimate search results' situation we have now. > That's it. Good luck writing your own algorithm that detects product placements from genuine human experience. Pretty trivial to detect if the content-author (whether ChatGPT or human) is going overboard. A single page exhorting the benefits of 20 different products? Unless that page is performing a comparison or review, pretty easy to pick it up just from the links alone. And if it is performing a review or comparison, it's going to get excluded from search results for people not looking for reviews or comparisons. IOW, "working as intended", for me.