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Googling for "vlc", "vlc download", or "vlc player", the top 3-4 results are all to videolan.org. Ads may distort this for some users, though...

• jiggy2011 14y ago
  yes, this didn't always used to be the case though. Hopefully some google algo tweaks are working to help.
• rogerdpack 14y ago
  Yes unfortunately unless you have adbock installed the "first" results in a google search for "vlc" are typical for the (adware, spammy) sites.
  • wiredfool 14y ago
    In a clean, private window of safari, I'm seeing 4 videolan results before cnet and others of varying levels of crapitude.
    • EwanToo 14y ago
      He mentions "adblock", if I google for "vlc" I get an advert for a adware version of VLC above the videolan.org ones.
• jbk 14y ago
  Maybe because I spent almost 3 hours per week to clean it.
  • tobylane 14y ago
    What do you do, what proportion of your time is advancing yours or flagging them?
    • jbk 14y ago
      Sorry, I cannot answer to that publicly. Mail me.
      • gus_massa 14y ago
        I understand that some details should be kept secret, but it would be nice to read a blog post about this.
  • socialist_coder 14y ago
    Wow. That really sucks man. I hope something changes where you don't have to do this forever. I told my Dad's wife to download VLC and she ended up with the crapware version too. I didn't even realize they existed until then. I was shocked =( You have my sympathies.
    • jbk 14y ago
      Thanks :)
  • socialist_coder 14y ago
    Do you know if the Intel App-Up site is legit or do they also bundle the crapware installers? http://www.appup.com/app-details/vlc?edgSrcID=398114176 http://www.appup.com/app-details/vlc?edgSrcID=398114176 It's the first thing I see for "VLC" when I turned off Ad Block.
    • jbk 14y ago
      Completely free, no adware, no spyware and full source is provided. This is rare :)
• makomk 14y ago
  Probably the ads. For a while, Google helped made this even worse by paying companies like Dell to set the default search on new PCs to specially-customised version of Google with far more prominent ads that were less clearly distinguished from normal search results.
  • creativityland 14y ago
    Wow. Source?
    • eitland 14y ago
      Dell has been installing crap since at least 2006/07. Thats when I started wondering why all new PCs at a certain company where all infected just few days after purchase. Then I realized this thing (myway?) was being installed by default. I really didn't think it was ever a Google product though. Correct me if I'm wrong.
• Symmetry 14y ago
  True now, but it wasn't true a year ago when I installed Windows 7.
• robot 14y ago
  videolan.org has a pretty confusing name. I bet if it was vlcplayer.com it would get better downloads.
  • jbk 14y ago
    For the same reasons mozilla.org is not firefoxbrowser.com
    • mh- 14y ago
      perhaps not the best example, since the Mozilla Foundation (mozilla.org) runs the Firefox promotions to getfirefox.com.
• slowpoke 14y ago
  On your Google, with your results, with your search history and thus in your specific filter bubble. Fuck, people, don't you get this already? There is no n-th result on Google. Don't act like there is.