A little bit ironic that you can see an actual result at the bottom of the already cropped screenshot.
For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
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Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
#22Yeah I’ve noticed this too. But also the rest of the front page is often either seo spam (like those Pinterest links which catch whatever search term you’ve used) or shopping sites. I’ve found google search to be increasingly hostile to its customers. I guess we’re not the customers. Use duckduckgo or something else.
It's fraud, effectively. I've seen a bunch of people that are not tech savvy do Google searches, and they have no idea they're clicking on ads. I pointed this out a few times and they seem to not care anyways. Google knows this very well and they pretend like they're giving search results, but the majority of users are getting ad search results instead.
It is basically the yellow pages on the internet model that a few people tried and Google killed. I'm not sure what we can learn from the fact that Google is regressing into the model they killed in the first place.
Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
#23Did anyone replicate this? I couldn’t on desktop and mobile. Seems like flame bait
I saw this myself months ago with my father. He calls me up, and tells me that Google is only showing him ads, and he can't find any actual content. I figured it was some kind of malware he installed, but nope, I get over there and it's exactly like this screenshot. The entire first screen of results was ads. Then when I scrolled down, there weren't Google ads, but just a bunch of SEO spam. Wasn't gonna waste my time figuring it out, so I put him on DDG, and his problems were solved.
Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
#24That screenshot was shocking.
It truly has been a slippery slope to get here. So subtle I barely noticed the group shifting beneath my feet.
Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
#25Yeah I’ve noticed this too. But also the rest of the front page is often either seo spam (like those Pinterest links which catch whatever search term you’ve used) or shopping sites. I’ve found google search to be increasingly hostile to its customers. I guess we’re not the customers. Use duckduckgo or something else.
I'd pay $10/month for a nerd-only, developer-friendly, pro-small-biz, precision search that works like 2008 version of Google. Something that I use dozens of times a day, is totally worth paying for.
It is inevitable. It's coming. Algolia? Please?
Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
#26Did anyone replicate this? I couldn’t on desktop and mobile. Seems like flame bait
I saw this myself months ago with my father. He calls me up, and tells me that Google is only showing him ads, and he can't find any actual content. I figured it was some kind of malware he installed, but nope, I get over there and it's exactly like this screenshot. The entire first screen of results was ads. Then when I scrolled down, there weren't Google ads, but just a bunch of SEO spam. Wasn't gonna waste my time…
lol, OK what was the query? let's see the DDG and Google results side by side.
I swear people always say nonsense like this and when I ask for specific queries they stop replying. Check my history if you doubt it.
I don't doubt you saw ads, but Google very strictly limits the percentage of the screen that can be ads or percentage of results. If you can find a single query in which every result on the first page is a sponsored ad I'll send you $5 via Venmo right now, no questions asked.
people just like saying 'omg all my screen is ads' and then they crop their screen showing like 20% of the screen on a 1080p monitor. >_>
Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
#27Yeah I’ve noticed this too. But also the rest of the front page is often either seo spam (like those Pinterest links which catch whatever search term you’ve used) or shopping sites. I’ve found google search to be increasingly hostile to its customers. I guess we’re not the customers. Use duckduckgo or something else.
Kind of an aside but it seems like there are SEO pages which dynamically adjust their displayed text in the search results to your search query...how does that work? Isn't search result text indexed in advance? Or is this some sort of paid feature from google, where your search terms are injected into a template?
Whatever it is it's really annoying because usually these results link to another search on a shopping site and more often than not those results come up empty anyway.
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#28been using ublock origin for years I have no idea what you're talking about. good luck though
Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I see this constantly when my adblocker is off. Search for anything related to "job search" et voila: https://i.imgur.com/dBXghPh.png Here's "mattress," which has ads that extend beyond the fold: https://i.imgur.com/Z9dGSKR.png Those two I just took. I mercifully cannot replicate this one anymore, but here's one for "indeed" I took in December, where LinkedIn had an ad that took up my entire laptop screen: https…
I'm talking about the exact query in the OP. No one is shocked that Google has ads.
There is zero way to exactly replicate OPs query as Google heavily tailors results to each person, logged in or not.
And yes, people are shocked at the amount of ads google is pushing.
Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
#30Yeah I’ve noticed this too. But also the rest of the front page is often either seo spam (like those Pinterest links which catch whatever search term you’ve used) or shopping sites. I’ve found google search to be increasingly hostile to its customers. I guess we’re not the customers. Use duckduckgo or something else.
Kind of an aside but it seems like there are SEO pages which dynamically adjust their displayed text in the search results to your search query...how does that work? Isn't search result text indexed in advance? Or is this some sort of paid feature from google, where your search terms are injected into a template? Whatever it is it's really annoying because usually these results link to another search on a shopping si…
They are usually search result pages with the keyword in the url parameter, and they link to those search results elsewhere on their site for Google to find