what's after the fold? Why do you crop it so it only shows ads? so ridiculous. Google will almost never show more than 5 sponsored ads or some combination of 2-3 ads and sponsored modal. same is true with Bing, DDG, Startpage, etc.
this scenario of all of the results being ads is nonexistent. again if anyone can show me a reproducible query in which all results are ads, $5 - easy.
I think when people are saying "the whole screen is ads", they mean the _visible_ screen. The person took a screenshot of the first visible screen and it's all ads. You can even see in the tweet that the tippy top of the next result is a non-ad, but all visible results were ads. Even one of the parent comments says "...Then when I scrolled down, there weren't Google ads, but just a bunch of SEO spam", implying that there were non-ads if you scrolled.
So I think there's just a communication breakdown here.
I didn't crop it.. that's the point.. on the native resolution of my computer, doing a search for that specific term shows 100% ads after clicking "search".. Obviously you can scroll past them, maybe that's why you're confused?
Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...
> Nobody's saying the search results are only ads, they're saying that the only results that are shown to consumers without some action on their part are ads...
The title of this post and point of the twitter thread is:
"For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads."
I love how you're on a YC Combinator forum criticizing other people about worshipping corporations.
I care about accuracy and quantifiable metrics. I can show screenshots for Bing, DDG, and Google showing all ads. OK what's the point? What percentage of results on the first page for each are ads. More accurate and easier to compare.
By the way, if you want to attack Google you should attack them for things that actually matter, like their egregious Play Store fees and anti competitiveness by misleading buyers in their ad bidding market, tax evasive, anti-trust, and adherence to censorship in various countries.
do you realize how disgusting it is to be okay with twisting the truth as long as it fits your agenda? somehow people are actually receptive to arguments like yours, it boggles the mind. criticize when there is something to criticize, in Google's case this is not hard. viewing the world in black and white is the height of immaturity
"Twisting the truth" in this case is using a term that literally everybody except for one deliberate contrarian understands to mean the same thing.
A good faith argument shouldn't come down to semantics. Once you realize that the other side isn't using a term in the way you think it should be used, you can either stop the debate to argue the semantics, or accept their definition as the terms for the debate.
I suspect you misunderstood what folks are up in arms about. No one is claiming that Google is serving an entire page worth of ads. They're angered that the entire above the fold section, typically on a laptop, is entirely ads.
It is nice how passionate you are, though.
Also, appropriately, your screenshot of DDG does not showcase all ads.
I'm on a 15" macbook pro and also only see ads below the fold. Is it difficult to imagine that most users around the planet aren't working with 27" monitors or whatever size it is you have?
You didn't even read my comment you replied to. Did you not see where I said that I scrolled down past the ads to look at all the totally legit SEO spam?
this scenario of all of the results being ads is nonexistent. again if anyone can show me a reproducible query in which all results are ads, $5 - easy.
omg DDG 100% ads !111
https://imgur.com/a/A1bxnVQ