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Re:Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges by adwordsjedi on Thursday July 14, 2016 @09:56AM (#12093774)
On some searches now Google barely displays and real results at all. The map results are gone, adwords are gone and now they show Local Services at the top requesting quotes.

For example: Plumbers in San Francisco

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Re:Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges by raldi on Thursday July 14, 2016 @12:05PM (#12094975)
The top result is Yelp, and there's even a widget that lets you search for a plumber that's been certified. What results would you prefer to see at the top instead?
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Re:Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges by Sylos on Thursday July 14, 2016 @03:47PM (#12096697)
Are we sure that this is not influenced by Google's search result personalization?
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Re:Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges by raldi on Thursday July 14, 2016 @04:06PM (#12096802)
Do you get something different?
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Re:Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges by mikelward on Thursday July 14, 2016 @10:24AM (#12094028)
Possibly because of this http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-lo...
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