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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by lettergram on Saturday May 11, 2019 @10:29AM (#19886346)
Indeed! I too was slapped with this when I did a recent Google search. I had to wade through a ton of what I’d call “story cards” - I.e. a square around some story Google wanted to highlight. I couldn’t get to the actual results until half way down the page.

Luckily, DuckDuckGo has been improving and now it’s even what I recommend to non-technical people; as I never use “!g” any more.

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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by mattkevan on Saturday May 11, 2019 @10:55AM (#19886485)
Really dislike those story cards.

They get in the way of actual results, steal traffic from the sites the content is from and don’t deliver enough information to be useful. Not once has a story card provided what I needed.

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