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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by froindt on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:19PM (#14158081)
I noticed just how bad it was last week when looking at wedding bands.

http://imgur.com/a/9Yz5M

Top 4 results plus the entire right half are all sponsored content. There was only one link shown on the without scrolling which wasn't sponsored.

Crap like this is why ad blockers are popular.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by Animats on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:32PM (#14160015)
That's what we have Ad Limiter for.[1] It trims Google's sponsored results down to one ad. For some subjects (try "credit card") the entire first screen from Google is ads.

[1] http://www.adlimiter.com

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by delecti on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:24PM (#14161074)
You're searching for products though. All of those ads meet the criteria of your search.
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