Re:Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
by ok_coo on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:28PM
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Google still has complete control over how well your web app is ranked in search results and they change rules and criteria all of the time, sometimes with little notice. Google search console is infuriatingly vague. Google is inescapable and opaque and I’m glad politicians are finally seeing these entities as monopoly powers that need to be addressed. They have a monopoly market share in web search and mobile devices so how is anyone supposed to NOT play by their rules?
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Re:Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
by Nasrudith on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:23AM
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You seriously overestimate their both their automated and manual control if you think they are capable of passive aggressive actions to non-entities. They closest they can come is hiding autosuggest when too many people complain or it becomes too sensitive like say "Ted Cruz Zodiac Killer".
Re:Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
by justtopost on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:30AM
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They have much much done more than soft-censor autocomplete.
Re:Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
by FranciscusG on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @07:06AM
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Google search for:
women are toxic
Their SERPS will only return quotes on toxic MASCULINITY. Do the same thing in Yandex and they'll give you the correct results. Google uses AI to identify "non-PC sites" and push them down in the SERPS.