It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.
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#12Ars Technica analysis: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/google-posts-embeds-a...
(Found via a Google search sadly enough.)
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#13Can I get the opposite of this; where the latest political circus news is excluded from Google?
You could avoid searching for those topics. Just a thought...
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#14This infuriates me as a Twitter stockholder and user. Has everyone at Twitter fallen asleep? How could they not have the jump on Google on this.
What exactly do you wish Twitter had done? Allow longer posts? That's not going to have the big positive impact some people think it will. Hosting longer posts on Twitter isn't going to bring more users to Twitter or keep more people more engaged with it.
This is a big deal because Google is leveraging their dominant position in search to coerce people into using it as a social platform.
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#15Too bad no candidate is worth listening to. :P
Like it or not, one of them is going to lead one of the world's most powerful nation. Educating yourself on their policies is worth it imo.
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#16Some examples of these seem to be: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hillary+issues https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bernie+issues I'm referring to the postings with the photo and the checkmark and the "On Google" text, not the ones pulled from news sources, like the ones for "trump issues"
I'm thrilled to report that uBlock Origin completely strips out this spam on the search results page. I was worried that it might take some time to filter out this noise from the search results page, but apparently not!
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#17Wow, when Google makes this available to businesses they're going to be able to charge whatever they want and every business is going to have to use it. This is not good.
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#18Some examples of these seem to be: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hillary+issues https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bernie+issues I'm referring to the postings with the photo and the checkmark and the "On Google" text, not the ones pulled from news sources, like the ones for "trump issues"
I don't see that from Europe. Could you post a screenshot?
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#19Is this like twitter meets google ads in my search? I've moved to Duck Duck Go already, It's about 90% effective, but worth it.
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#20It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.
Or it could be a desire to provide maximally relevant search results. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Dr. Freud.
Not-a-disclaimer: I'm spending the year at Google (as a visiting scientist; I don't own stock and have no financial interest in its success). You might be surprised by how strong the desire is to do the right thing by users and make it easy for them to find what they're looking for. There's not always an ulterior motive -- happy searchers made Google what it is today.