Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads

Re:Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads by tompccs on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:40AM (#11770528)

Speaking of which, have you tried typing "openstreetmap" into Google? None of the top links actually take you to the homepage where the maps are displayed.

I'm quite shocked. For lack of better explanation this seems like foul play.

Perhaps it comes out differently for you: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=openstreetmap

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Re:Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads by huskyr on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:51AM (#11770628)

I've tried this in a logged-in session, an incognito tab and even in TorBrowser: in all three cases the first result was a link to openstreetmap.org, and the next few hits linked to subdomains, the Wikipedia article or pages explaining the concept. So i guess it's just you.

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Re:Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads by tompccs on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:12PM (#11770847)

I've just tested this again, and it seems to only happen when I type the query directly from my Chrome url bar (I'm using Google UK if that makes a difference). Same on Incognito. I get the "Copyright" page at https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright and NO LINK to the homepage anywhere on the front page of results, which seems nuts.

https://s33.postimg.org/7iaf0z47j/Screenshot_from_2016_05_25...

But copy-pasting the resulting URL into Tor results in a 403 page.

Does anyone have a reasonable suggestion for this behaviour?

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Re:Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads by frandroid on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:55AM (#11770678)

Comes up first for me.

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Re:Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads by majewsky on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:37PM (#11771059)

For me, too. I'm on Firefox for Mac in Germany, and it gives me openstreetmap.de and openstreetmap.org as the first two results, then the OSM wiki.

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