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Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

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259 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 21:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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Ancalagon ◴[20 Nov 24 22:25 UTC] No.42198762[source]▶
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. Google's search results have gotten so bad - seems like even some of the simplest searches are just packed with AI generated and SEO garbage. I don't even want SearchGPT do take over the search market space because I'm almost sure it will still be garbage. Just bring back the google from 5-10 years ago please :(.
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shombaboor ◴[21 Nov 24 00:08 UTC] No.42199572[source]▶
I was searching for a uniquely named company by exact name (think: verizon), and it was 80% of the way down the results page. Google knew exactly what I wanted to see and flooded my screen with alternatives who had paid them.
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1. kmoser ◴[21 Nov 24 04:35 UTC] No.42201161[source]▶
Were those organic results, or the paid ads that always appear first?
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2. rty32 ◴[21 Nov 24 13:12 UTC] No.42203992[source]▶
My guess: shopping results, followed by sponsored ads, followed by 1-2 results that are not ads but you don't care, some combination of news/Twitter/Youtube videos, more shopping results, then finally real search results. If "AI summary" didn't appear at the top.

I have seen that so many times that I can scroll to the "correct" part of the Google search result page within 2 seconds without thinking.

Now that I write this down, I realized how horrible this is.