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I’m increasingly accidentally clicking ads on Google search. When it happens I’m sure I’m in an A/B test with ads in search results at the bottom of the page blended in to look like results.

Searching for products or manufactures is now increasingly impossible. Almost all the hits are ads for online retailers selling the product with the manufacturer’s page increasingly difficult to find in results.

The other one is everything is now “The best”. Every article surfaced is some low quality SEO post starting with “The best”.

Then tech searches bring up sites that have scraped stack overflow/GitHub duplicating content in a worse UI with ads/pop ups/redirects reminiscent of early 2000s filesharing website download link clicks. How these sites rank higher than the sources is a bit confusing.

Sites like medium locking content up so need to join to read it, Facebook groups killing forums have killed a lot of what made the internet/Google good.

It seems Google has less content it can index as content is locked away in private silos, the only freely searchable content is e-commerce sites and Google makes it money off the ads for ecommerce sites so those get pushed to the top of the rankings.