[HN Gopher] Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
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Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
Author : recroad
Score : 41 points
Date : 2025-09-24 22:11 UTC (48 minutes ago)
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| wk_end wrote:
| I'm not using an ad blocker; when I search for Midjourney on
| Google the real thing is my first result; I don't even see any
| sponsored content. Not sure what's happening for OP.
|
| (Please don't read this as a defense of Google on the whole.)
| drusepth wrote:
| Piggybacking on to provide a screenshot since I also see no
| sponsored content and Midjourney is my #1 result, well above
| the fold.
|
| [1] https://i.imgur.com/Oxo4FJl.png
| A_D_E_P_T wrote:
| Same here, though for me the second result is the Midjourney
| Discord rather than Reddit.
|
| But I'm in Europe. Perhaps that affects results? I wouldn't
| be surprised if the Google experience were more ad-heavy in
| low-consumer-protection nations.
| jensenbox wrote:
| [delayed]
| ranger207 wrote:
| My dad stopped using Google like 20 years ago for exactly this
| reason. He was not happy when his relevant local small business
| was pushed off the first page by out-of-state providers of
| tenuously related services
| freediver wrote:
| They still get away with it as 'only' 1% complain and Google
| thinks they don't matter.
|
| We built our entire company for that 1%.
| sebgr wrote:
| the sponsored results looks like you are in an ads experiment
| since this really isn't how it typically displays
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