Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also damaging to businesses

Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by malchow on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:17PM (#14159903)

My mother has exactly one way to get to the Nordstrom e-commerce site: search Google for Nordstrom, and then click on the first authoritative-looking Nordstrom search result, which is an AdWords ad, landing her at the home page.

Seems expensive for Nordstrom.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by jessaustin on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:43PM (#14160136)

Would a browser extension that just moved AdWords to the bottom of the page be banned from the chrome web store?

I'm sort of tempted to try this, but if so I guess I should start backing up my gmail account...

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by tyingq on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:09PM (#14160369)

Tried this on a few search result pages, seems reliable so far.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by memmcgee on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:29PM (#14161816)

Are adblockers blocked from the Chrome store?

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by tyingq on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:24PM (#14162095)

Desktop extensions aren't, but perhaps GP is remembering a similar situation with mobile ad blockers and the Play Store. https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/09/google-reverses-its-decisi...

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by Neliquat on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:00PM (#14162562)

Some are, usually youtube api abusers. They try to walk the line pretty well with their TOS.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by 8ytecoder on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:42PM (#14160649)

1. Nordstrom would rather pay to keep the customer

2. Google charges a fraction for bidding on your own brand/website.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by malchow on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:52PM (#14160739)

A woman in her sixties Googling for "nordstrom" is a Nordstrom customer.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by 8ytecoder on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:09PM (#14161350)

Of course. That's why I said "keep" and not acquire. What I meant is Nordstrom would rather pay Google to not lose the customer to some other site because of the placement of ads on Google.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by jacquesm on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:04PM (#14160887)

Sooner or later the new middleman will always start to behave like the old middleman. Before it was the yellow pages, now it's google.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by kristianc on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:48PM (#14160178)

It is - but if they don't Neiman Marcus will bid for that term instead and come up as the top result.

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