Another small change that diminishes the utility of the site, and makes it harder for me to sift through the junk content that increasingly makes it to the top of the pile. I think this has convinced me to start using Duck Duck Go as my search provider.
Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
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Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we have any recourse against this monopoly, other than voicing our concerns repeatedly while they ignore us? Can we launch a class action lawsuit against Google if they harm people by limiting consumer choice, and force us to be tracked everywhere using reCAPTCHA v3 and various other methods? Keep in mind that not sending your data to Google is not a real option, there are several government services, health care…
> Do we have any recourse against this monopoly...? Once upon a time, Congress used to write and pass laws to protect Americans from egregious abuses of power like this. Of course, that time is long gone.
They've figured out monopoly at home is monopoly abroad, so it might as well be beneficial to keep them to exert power over foreign countries.
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#143This is a purely anti-user move. No user gains anything by it, this actually helps phishing sites. Oh, and it happens to help Google's AMP effort, which can now pretend to be the original site even more effectively. Time to get everyone to use Duck Duck Go, and to get rid of those Google CAPTCHAs which are an even bigger data harvesting operation than search.
Does Duck Duck Go use google ?
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#144Google just last week announced a drop in profit, so expect more of these types of “optimizations” over the coming months.
Over the past 6 months they’ve already increased the font size of SERPs, made their ads look even more similar to organic results, and started showing multiple results from the same site in the top 5 results for highly competitive terms. All of these “optimizations” are designed to encourage more ad revenue.
Plus their Google Ads account managers have become hyper aggressive in pushing their keyword and bidding AI, which according to our tests increase costs per conversions.
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#145Good thing Bing is no longer shit.
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google isn’t really a search engine anymore. They’re a data harvesting company who then try find ways to profit off sharing that data with you. Google penalises other websites for stealing content or re-hosting stuff without adding value, then goes ahead and does exactly that all the time.
It makes perfectly sense if you read how Google was originally funded. Culture runs from the birth.
Any link for that please?
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google isn’t really a search engine anymore. They’re a data harvesting company who then try find ways to profit off sharing that data with you. Google penalises other websites for stealing content or re-hosting stuff without adding value, then goes ahead and does exactly that all the time.
Google is an organism and uses attack and defense against its perceived enemies.
A more appropriate analogy would be cancer.
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#148I just checked Google search with Chrome and Firefox in Debian, and both still show URLs for actual search results. But not for ads. So I wonder if Google plans to drop URLs from actual search results. And if they do, whether using Startpage, or DDG with the Google option, would still show them.
The test groups are separated on account level. I get old Google whenever I log out.
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see an icon and address above the title on mobile
Are you sure? Sometimes the title of a page is the url (or they use the url when the title is missing?). I see titles mostly.
This is the style of results i m seeing in mobile:
https://i.imgur.com/eDZjQlW.png
I guess it s different for everyone
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we have any recourse against this monopoly, other than voicing our concerns repeatedly while they ignore us? Can we launch a class action lawsuit against Google if they harm people by limiting consumer choice, and force us to be tracked everywhere using reCAPTCHA v3 and various other methods? Keep in mind that not sending your data to Google is not a real option, there are several government services, health care…
> Do we have any recourse against this monopoly...? Once upon a time, Congress used to write and pass laws to protect Americans from egregious abuses of power like this. Of course, that time is long gone.
"butbutbutbut regulation bad" - average HN reader