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Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter. We built our entire company for that 1%.

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Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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I'm not using an ad blocker; when I search for Midjourney on Google the real thing is my first result; I don't even see any sponsored content. Not sure what's happening for OP. (Please don't read this as a defense of Google on the whole.)

Piggybacking on to provide a screenshot since I also see no sponsored content and Midjourney is my #1 result, well above the fold. [1] https://i.imgur.com/Oxo4FJl.png

This is exactly what I see with adblock turned on. When turned off, the first two results are ads.

Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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When I search for "midjourney" without an adblocker a bunch of times, I'm getting:

- No ads, with correct midjourney.com as the top result, about half the time

- A legit ad for midjourney.com with the title "Your Imagination, Unlocked", the other half the time. It's the only ad, and the correct midjourney.com is also still directly below it as the first organic result

So both seem fine for me. I've never seen ads on Google with the kind of formatting shown by OP either.

Obviously everybody's search experience is different, based on geography, profile, who else is running ads for those keywords, Google runs different formatting experiences as A/B testing, etc.

Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter. We built our entire company for that 1%.

How will you fight the inevitable slide that happens if you ever got on top? I’m convinced Google started with the absolute best of intentions before the money and greed turned them into a horror movie villain.
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