Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
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Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
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Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
#2I'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.)
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#3Too bad I cannot zoom into the image in my phone. Even tapping on it does not enable me to really see it much larger.
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#4My dad stopped using Google like 20 years ago for exactly this reason. He was not happy when his relevant local small business was pushed off the first page by out-of-state providers of tenuously related services
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#6I'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.
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#7They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter.
We built our entire company for that 1%.
Re: Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
#8I'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
Same here, though for me the second result is the Midjourney Discord rather than Reddit.
But I'm in Europe. Perhaps that affects results? I wouldn't be surprised if the Google experience were more ad-heavy in low-consumer-protection nations.
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#9the sponsored results looks like you are in an ads experiment since this really isn't how it typically displays
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#10I have been using an ad blocker for a long time and K didn't even know there was the sponsored ads feature