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We sell advertising, not search results

by jcoffland on 1/21/20, 6:39 PM with 7 comments

  • by SparksZilla on 1/21/20, 6:53 PM

    With most results above the fold being ads these days, this is a pretty tone deaf message to put out there.
  • by bobwaycott on 1/22/20, 12:20 AM

    With their most recent design, it’s nigh impossible to even identify an ad from a search result.
  • by throwGuardian on 1/21/20, 11:24 PM

    Start and maintain a $100/month adwords account, and magically, one's domain gets free SEO (moving up in ancillary search results) --> every S.E.O advice on the internet openly states this.
  • by jcoffland on 1/21/20, 6:41 PM

    This is what Google used to be like. They have fallen a long way from this high ground.