• chakan2@lemmy.world
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      Getting 4 sponsored links and an AI overview before I get to the search results.

      It’s basically all the shit Yahoo did to lose their search dominance.

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        Fun Fact: the current head of Google’s search is the same guy that was in charge of Yahoo’s search right before they folded their own search and just started licensing Bing.

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        You can disable the AI stuff and other nonsense if you do a “web” search, it’s in the list with images, videos etc. Theres also a thing you can add to a search url to do it - &udm=14.

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        I can’t see how a checkmark is supposed to fixes these Problems. Aren’t the sponsored links not already marked as such?

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      I assume SEO spam/misleading ads?

      Stuff that could probably be better done by vetting advertisers and improving the search algorithm.

    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
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      Malware disguised as legitimate software getting served as ads.

      Just a few months ago people were shown faked websites for obs studio when searching for the original. They should vet whose ads they’re serving instead of just certifying certain corporations.