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> I have to move my laptop screen to see what is an ad > and what is not. Do you have a screenshot? When I do a search, even for very ad-heavy queries such a
by jmillikin 14y ago
> I have to move my laptop screen to see what is an ad
> and what is not.
Do you have a screenshot? When I do a search, even for very ad-heavy queries such as [credit card], the ads are still clearly marked with colored backgrounds and notes like "Ads related to credit card".
> They even turned Shopping in 100% ads, without promptly
> disclosing it (you have to click on a tiny thing on the
> page to read that Google is listing results based on
> payment to Google)
In shopping, at the bottom of the page is a notice that "Google is compensated by these merchants. Payment is one of several factors used to rank these results." It appears to be about the same font size as the body text in ad blocks.
- DanBC 14y ago> Do you have a screenshot? His screenshot on your screen will just show you what you always see. It's not going to show you what his screen displays. EDIT: Here are some poor camera phone photos. The ads are clearly marked as ads, but at a normal viewing angle the background is almost invisible. This is on an uncalibrated old Lenovo thinkpad monitor. (http://imgur.com/a/BKY4w#qcXWJdc http://imgur.com/a/BKY4w#qcXWJdc) Google should assume that people have shitty monitors and have no idea about calibration and make ads very clear. This is a complaint that was made when Google first started putting ads at the top of search. Of course, they're free to not do that and carry on as they are, but they're likely to find regulatory interference increases in the EU.
- jmillikin 14y ago> His screenshot on your screen will just show you what > you always see. It's not going to show you what his > screen displays. If he has an incorrectly-configured video driver or a program that modifies color temperature (such as f.lux), his screenshot would show it.