This GreaseMonkey userscript worked for me to revert the search results to their previous style:
Every Google result now looks like an ad
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Re: Every Google result now looks like an ad
#52Even though I want them to have more ad cash, DuckDuckGo isn't vastly better: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=buy+printer
Are you seeing something else than I am? DDG looks lightyears better than current google now, at least on visual clarity side
I think the point is DDG has the exact pattern you are all whining about: the organic results have icons and the ad says "Ad" instead.
Re: Every Google result now looks like an ad
#53I wish there was a way to directly help Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex improve their search results. I've tried both, and it's just not the same. Google I can bang in cryptic queries like > centos 7 tuned no daemon and get the 3rd link about how to run tuned in a no daemon mode. Bing/DuckDuckGo have the article at around 7th or 8th place, but prefaced by a lot of "while technically not wrong, not what I'm looking for" links.…
> We cannot, as a healthy internet, let Google control so much of the web. It's getting worse too. Back in the day, you could Google something for a manufacturer and include the name of the manufacturer like, "Pioneer 10" Subwoofer" and automatically the first result would be a like to Pioneer's subwoofer page or their main ecommerce site. You type that into Google today? You will get 15 results for AMAZON pages with…
IMO Google is doing the best they can to serve you relevant results, just that everyone and their uncle is spamming internet to get up in the ranking game.
Think of modern google as a question answering machine not a serch engine. And do "Show me Pioneer 10 subwoofer manufacturer specs" instead of just jamming keywords and hoping for the best.
Re: Every Google result now looks like an ad
#54They also kinda build the web though
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#55Re: Every Google result now looks like an ad
#56I noticed this on a co-workers screen recently and my immediate thought was "what dodgy search extensions have they been installing?". Now that it's on my results as well I can't help but strongly dislike the change for some reason. The icons are both very small and very distracting at the same time and don't aid in adding authority or any important meta information about the site. The changes seem to have added enou…
>I noticed this on a co-workers screen recently and my immediate thought was "what dodgy search extensions have they been installing?".
My legit first reaction when I saw it last week on my daily driver was "I wonder what extension is trying to cash out".
Re: Every Google result now looks like an ad
#57Really, just use duckduckgo.com.
Go to your Firefox' settings and change the default search engine, there, done. See if you care in a week to change it back, I promise you that you won't.
Re: Every Google result now looks like an ad
#58Perhaps it's worth quoting Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in the original paper on the Google search engine: > "The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. ...we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers. " ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html ) At th…
Money can change almost anyone's opinion about almost any subject.
They are not exactly in charge anymore
Re: Every Google result now looks like an ad
#59I just want compact results again.. searching for coding related stuff I need to be able to quickly scan through a bunch of results to see if it's what I'm looking for.. but now they are so spaced out it's just weird and inefficient.
Yes! My biggest complaint is I can't quickly scan search results now, there's so much wasted space.
Re: Every Google result now looks like an ad
#60A new search engine outside the hands of Google is overdue. It feels like a huge ad machinery.