It's a little unsettling.
If I search on mobile, often all my results are these content farms. (Google used in English from Germany)
Not sure how we should react :/
r/HailCorporate used to be about calling out stealth marketing/advertising but it's morphed into just discussing how things can inadvertently act as an advertisement aka society is full of branding and consumerism. It's a shame because it used to be a very high quality sub.
- best mattress 2021
- best mattress 2021 consumer reports
- best mattress 2021 reddit
- best mattress 2021 for back pain
- best mattress 2021 wirecutter
etc.
But of course Reddit is already rife with shills. Not sure about CR.
Yes, I clicked the link because it exactly referenced my issue. But it's not helpful to just see the same 5 tips copy pasted from elsewhere by an algorithm.
Why? Google makes money from advertisements either way, it's not in their interest to improve search results. If anything, terrible search results make users more likely to click on ads, which now look better by comparison.
Users may be entrenched in other Google products-- Gmail, gcal, docs, etc-- but not search. Someone using all those other Google products could change their default search engine and have zero impact on the rest of their digital life.
I'm shopping around for a preferred alternative right now, I just haven't settled yet.
It is sad, bit nowadays I often just directly jump onto page 3 at Google or use other "tricks" to get okayish results.
