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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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I miss the days when it was rare to need to goto the second page. Now you have to in order to get passed the all the shite. Even ignoring the sponsored shit Google wants to sell me the thing I'm trying to get a review of on the firs and second page
In my case it's trying to sell me the fucking thing i explicitly excluded from results with a boolean
I can imagine some mid-level idiot with an MBA coming up with that one in a staff meeting. "I know how we increase revenue, guys: the old reverse psychology!"
Bastard probably got a bonus for it.
Not even that smart. It's just shitty, shitty SEO
'Stick ads for x on anything that mentions x, xa, xy and related terms. Don't pay attention to exclusions'