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by froindt 3350 days ago
I noticed just how bad it was last week when looking at wedding bands.

http://imgur.com/a/9Yz5M

Top 4 results plus the entire right half are all sponsored content. There was only one link shown on the without scrolling which wasn't sponsored.

Crap like this is why ad blockers are popular.

2 comments

That's what we have Ad Limiter for.[1] It trims Google's sponsored results down to one ad. For some subjects (try "credit card") the entire first screen from Google is ads.

[1] http://www.adlimiter.com

You're searching for products though. All of those ads meet the criteria of your search.