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Microsoft Tests 9 Ads & Only One Free Search Results On Same Page. (www.seroundtable.com)

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

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Microsoft was caught testing way too many ads on its Bing Search results page. I saw 9 ads and only two organic/free listings on the page for a query on [garage door repair].

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ew.

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

Next up they might test making the whole first page for ads, and the pages after that for search results.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hell, why even have organic search results at all? Just rank results by how much each site owner is willing to ~~bribe~~ pay. A protection racket for the 21st century.

"That's a nice website you've got there. It'd be a shame if it got no visitors."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

This is Bing we're talking about, the website owner may not even notice.

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

well you'd think at some point people would stop using their bullshit search engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

DDG works pretty well and is based on Bing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good idea, you now quality to mod r/anarchocapitapism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While I don't mind laissez-faire in principle, that not my favorite anarcho-flavor and I don't wanna :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am empathetic to wanting to be left alone. I am disturbed by their desire to tear down systems that protect others out of some a historic notion that we would be better off with out them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Yup. I consider myself pretty laissez faire, but I too have my limits, which are way before I get within shouting distance of ancaps. I believe in Piguovian taxes and lean a bit Georgist for a tax baseline, which is already pretty far from ancapistan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I do like that Georgists are grounded in reality and try to address observed issues.