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Google Experiments with Bold Changes to Search

by svdr on 11/30/23, 2:22 PM with 1 comments

  • by aantix on 11/30/23, 2:45 PM

    In some weird way, I hope Google fails and is dethroned.

    Whenever I’m searching for a website, and my query is pretty close to the domain, it will show me the paid ad for the site first, not the organic result (which is also that same domain).

    I always avoid the ad version.

    It just rubs me the wrong way and feels slimy.

    I’m thinking to myself, “you know that I meant OpenAI, it’s the first search result. There’s no reason to extract a click from that paid advertiser.”