Google Backtracks on Design That Made Search Ads Look Like Normal Results (cnbc.com) 29
Google's latest design change to its search results received blowback from some who said it blurred the lines between search ads and regular search results. On Friday, Google responded, saying it will be experimenting with different designs, some that will not include the icons that make ads look similar to those organic search results. From a report: As part of a recent redesign to desktop search results, the company made paid links look more like the unpaid search results users see. The word "Ad" in bold text appears next to the advertisements, which typically appear as the first few results in a search and are therefore more likely to be clicked on and generate ad revenue for Google.
That was fast (Score:3)
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It should be fine, just replace the AD icon with a Phallus or maybe the eggplant emoji.
It will be picture perfect at the point... just imagine.
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equating the peter principle with greed and incompetence is asinine. The peter principle is all about the idea that a good performer is not actually paid their worth in their actual value so they are to be promote to do so, however that promotion usually dictates that a different set of skills will be required to remain competent and therefore places the person at risk of now becoming incompetent and no longer advancing.
The Peter Principle is a clear indictment of the entire Title = Worth/Salary model most
Re: That was fast (Score:2)
"socialists lazy fucks"
You mean the union men who fought and sometimes died to bring us weekends, the 40 hour week (now replaced by the 60 hour week in Progressive-run companies), and labor safety standards? Yeah, fuck those losers!
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The Peter Principle, people get promoted to their point of incompetence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] ie they are doing their current job better than the rest so promote them and this continues till they get promoted to a position where they are not that good. This has nothing to do with crony capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org], where corrupt individuals conspire and collude to get ahead and to keep out or remove those more skilled and honourable than themselves (this extended into broad based
I'm done with google (Score:2)
There is a point when a company put their revenue ahead of their customers. I cut back or stop doing business with companies when they do that. There are other good, and sometimes better search engines out there.
Re:I'm done with google (Score:5, Insightful)
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You're done with Google, but they aren't done with you.
The company's "services" are everywhere: you can't escape their advertisement, and you certainly can't escape their ubiquitous surveillance. Even if you make an effort not to use any of their products, it's almost impossible to avoid hitting their servers and giving your personal data away in one form or another. And they have a LOT of data collection methods you can't see and you can't avoid, so they'll know everything there is to know about you whethe
Re: I'm done with google (Score:1)
There's only two end games with Big Brother Google:
- Uncle Sam curb stomps them while it's still possible
- Cybernetic totalitarianism, replete with autonomous deathbots
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Yeah, I switched to a different search provider the same day this change hit me.
Their response doesn't give me any hope.
I don't want them to experiment on me, I just want consistent service.
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Too bad you're addicted and can't unsubscribe.
You're a wholely owned subsidiary.
FTFY (Score:3)
Google Backtracks on . . .
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At least they haven't backtracked on hiding youtube search results and shadow banning content they don't agree with.
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Google backed off from item "C" years ago. "A and "B" are just the latest implementations of negative-C
Now if only ... (Score:5, Insightful)
If only they would show the URL in the search results then all might be right in the world...
I swear it used to be underneath the page title, but now they did away with that in favour of that silly breadcrumb shit. And I mean the real actual URL that clicking on the link will use -- the actual HREF -- not some fuberized dreck full of google spyware redirections ...
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^^^ This. Hiding the urls completely was a dick move.
Between that and not having a way to show only page/document results these days (why can I show videos, shopping results, images separately, but I'm stuck with all that crap mixed in on the only page that shows page/document results?), I've reached my limit. Time for a browser extension that redirects google to something else (duckduckgo?) for me so I don't use it just out of habit.....
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^^^ This. Hiding the urls completely was a dick move.
I just hunted and hunted around the screen, feeling disoriented, and then switched.
I was truly shocked to find that many online pundits admitted that they "didn't really notice any difference." Get phished much? LOL
In Firefox it only takes a couple clicks to change your search provider; no extension needed.
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How did this get modded up? The URL is literally the first line of the search result above the title, it looks a little funny because it uses carrots instead of slashes, I'll concede one WTF for that but it's there. I thought it was even more obvious with the icon too, I wish they hadn't removed them, just made ads easily discernible again.
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Re: Stop Google now, before it's too late (Score:2)
Although I agree that those should all be separate companies, I think the idea of waiting until a company is giant to break them up is not the right approach. Not to mention, it takes way to long to actually break up a company. Instead your corporate tax rate should be based on your market cap. Let the companies themself decide to break up or not merge with another large company because they donâ(TM)t want their tax rate to go up. Something simple like a 1% increase in your tax rate for every 50
not a fan of the icon... (Score:3)
no more google (Score:1)
actual issue (Score:2)
Don't use google (Score:2)
Half of the first page of search results is now ads.
Youtube is so full of ads it's insane, I hardly go there anymore, and they keep asking me over and over and over to try their free trial.
If I said NO the first five hundred times, guess what I'm gonna say the NEXT five hundred times.
All it's going to show me is how they have gone out of their way to make YouAdvertsTube a goddamn disgrace in an effort to force you to pay for content they didn't create.
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