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Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by endisneigh »

Archio wrote: post #48
endisneigh wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what's after the fold? Why do you crop it so it only shows ads? so ridiculous. Google will almost never show more than 5 sponsored ads or some combination of 2-3 ads and sponsored modal. same is true with Bing, DDG, Startpage, etc. this scenario of all of the results being ads is nonexistent. again if anyone can show me a reproducible query in which all results are ads, $5 - easy. omg DDG 100% ads !111 https://imgur.…

I'm on a 15" macbook pro and also only see ads below the fold. Is it difficult to imagine that most users around the planet aren't working with 27" monitors or whatever size it is you have?

Yes, I just posted an image on a 13" laptop on DDG showing the entire page being ads.

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by mikeyouse »

endisneigh wrote: post #40
mikeyouse wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on a 13" Macbook Pro, here's what a Chrome search for "Salesforce Integration" with my adblocker turned off looks like: https://i.imgur.com/AkQWJeF.png 100% ads. DDG for the same search is better, but not by much: https://i.imgur.com/pcpxr4l.png

what's after the fold? Why do you crop it so it only shows ads? so ridiculous. Google will almost never show more than 5 sponsored ads or some combination of 2-3 ads and sponsored modal. same is true with Bing, DDG, Startpage, etc. this scenario of all of the results being ads is nonexistent. again if anyone can show me a reproducible query in which all results are ads, $5 - easy. omg DDG 100% ads !111 https://imgur.…

I didn't crop it.. that's the point.. on the native resolution of my computer, doing a search for that specific term shows 100% ads after clicking "search".. Obviously you can scroll past them, maybe that's why you're confused?

Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by greysonp »

endisneigh wrote: post #40
mikeyouse wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on a 13" Macbook Pro, here's what a Chrome search for "Salesforce Integration" with my adblocker turned off looks like: https://i.imgur.com/AkQWJeF.png 100% ads. DDG for the same search is better, but not by much: https://i.imgur.com/pcpxr4l.png

what's after the fold? Why do you crop it so it only shows ads? so ridiculous. Google will almost never show more than 5 sponsored ads or some combination of 2-3 ads and sponsored modal. same is true with Bing, DDG, Startpage, etc. this scenario of all of the results being ads is nonexistent. again if anyone can show me a reproducible query in which all results are ads, $5 - easy. omg DDG 100% ads !111 https://imgur.…

I think when people are saying "the whole screen is ads", they mean the _visible_ screen. The person took a screenshot of the first visible screen and it's all ads. You can even see in the tweet that the tippy top of the next result is a non-ad, but all visible results were ads. Even one of the parent comments says "...Then when I scrolled down, there weren't Google ads, but just a bunch of SEO spam", implying that there were non-ads if you scrolled.

So I think there's just a communication breakdown here.

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by endisneigh »

mikeyouse wrote: post #52
endisneigh wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what's after the fold? Why do you crop it so it only shows ads? so ridiculous. Google will almost never show more than 5 sponsored ads or some combination of 2-3 ads and sponsored modal. same is true with Bing, DDG, Startpage, etc. this scenario of all of the results being ads is nonexistent. again if anyone can show me a reproducible query in which all results are ads, $5 - easy. omg DDG 100% ads !111 https://imgur.…

I didn't crop it.. that's the point.. on the native resolution of my computer, doing a search for that specific term shows 100% ads after clicking "search".. Obviously you can scroll past them, maybe that's why you're confused? Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...

> Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...

The title of this post and point of the twitter thread is:

"For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads."

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by pwdisswordfish9 »

bell-cot wrote: post #41

I often prepend my searches with strings such as "wikipedia " - typically there's a big improvement on the SRP end...but the borG will fix that if it catches on. Coming soon - "Ad Infinitum(tm)" Google search results pages, which start to slowly scroll 5 seconds after being displayed...

Better yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by endisneigh »

imwillofficial wrote: post #29
endisneigh wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is not true. Ads are preslotted - so you might not get the same ads, but you will get the same number of ads.

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by el-salvador »

enumjorge wrote: post #36

The Facebook stock debacle from yesterday makes me think that maybe there is a limit to how user-hostile a tech giant can be before it really starts to hurt their bottom line. For a while it seemed like companies like FB had captured enough of the market that they seemed impervious to backlash from their many controversies, too big to fail in a way. It’s too early to tell if this is the beginning of FB’s demise, but…

> FB used outrage as a way to increase engagement with their product and it worked for a while, but now FB is increasingly a non-desirable place to hang out.

> Instead you can go to TikTok where you will find mostly amusing and at times informative content.

Tiktok does this very well. I usually end up feeling good after using TikTok. On the other hand Twitter makes me stressed, FB is not much used by my friends age group or only used for memes, and Instagram is now showing me two ads every three stories that is really a pain to use.

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by hutzlibu »

echelon wrote: post #42
omnicognate wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not duckduckgo's customer either (their primary revenue source is keyword based advertising), or the customer of anything else you don't pay for. The only one I know of that at least plans to have a simple two-way relationship with search users as their customers is Kagi. Currently it's in free beta with a waitlist (took a week for me). When they go live they intend it to be a paid, subscription service with n…

I hope they penalize websites with heavy tracking or advertising. We might get back to a sane web if this takes off. They can grow their market by offering 10 free searches a day, and I think that would be enough to entice a lot of folks to switch. Offer a paid API, and I'd bet they'd have a real growth story.

"I hope they penalize websites with heavy tracking or advertising."

I hope they give me a easy way, to set my own priorities (but I would choose that option).

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by mikeyouse »

endisneigh wrote: post #54
mikeyouse wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't crop it.. that's the point.. on the native resolution of my computer, doing a search for that specific term shows 100% ads after clicking "search".. Obviously you can scroll past them, maybe that's why you're confused? Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...

> Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads... The title of this post and point of the twitter thread is: "For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads."

Again.. "the whole screen" which implies everything you can see... Not everything that exists.

Re: For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

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Post by Nicksil »

endisneigh wrote: post #54
mikeyouse wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't crop it.. that's the point.. on the native resolution of my computer, doing a search for that specific term shows 100% ads after clicking "search".. Obviously you can scroll past them, maybe that's why you're confused? Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...

> Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads... The title of this post and point of the twitter thread is: "For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads."

>The title of this post and point of the twitter thread is:

>"For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads."

And that's what you see in the screenshots. What's the problem?

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