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Google Ads Dynamic Ad Placement Continues To Test Ads Mixed Within Organic Results (www.seroundtable.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anybody still using Google should take a deep long look in the mirror. Not for any moral reasons, just a sort of "how much do I enjoy wasting time skipping adds" reason. It's what made me switch to a different search engine. Because Google is becoming borderline unusable with how far down the actual results are now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only reason Google is still my default search engine on desktop is …. dates.

I’m a dev and the date next to each search result helps me skip a ton of irrelevant links and get to the ones that most likely apply to my situation. DDG and other search engines usually don’t show any dates.

I’ve sent feedback to DDG on this but obviously that had no impact. If they add dates, I’m done with Google.

On mobile I still use DDG since my searches are generally not date specific.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

DDG shows dates if you use the date-sorting feature

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Personally I just use an ad blocker

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why not use another search engine, and still use an adblocker?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Because they are all worse than google in many areas, especially for local results

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've tried a couple and they all return worse results on average. Scrolling down past the LLM garbage and paying attention to which results are real is less work than re-querying DDG 4 times to get a decent result.

I haven't tried kagi, but I've heard similar anecdotes here on Lemmy. I'm not opposed to paying. The ad model is unsustainably at best.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So they're trying to blur the line between ads and real content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You gonna click this ad, boy, and you are going to like it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Google results always show an AI answer at the top, at least on mobile.

Very annoying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Attention tax...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Haven't been using Google search in a long while and shifted completely to DDG. For me DDG gave straightforward and accurate results. If people want Google results they can try SearXng too. There's Brave search as well.