I've stated this before, but it bears repeating:
Google does not make money from you finding what you're looking for.
Google only makes money from you hunting for what you're looking for.
Repeating problematic incentives is fine. Ignoring counteracting incentives is misleading but popular in all debates.
- Monthly: Incentives variable, but generally low quality results (for slot machine psychology.)
- For each match/hookup/"real" relationship: Incentives results that produce relationships that last exactly long enough to be considered a match/hookup/"real" relationship.
- One-time upfront: Incentivize finding the best available candidate ASAP in order to save server costs.
- Monthly, cost propositional to success rate: Optimizing for some specific length of relationship that someone calculated to be optimal.
There are most likely other funding possibilities, and I've most likely misunderstood some rule of economics. Note that none of these optimize specifically for happiness in relationships, only for longevity.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Crate+and+Barrel+Canada&t=ffcm&ia=...
DuckDuckGo has mobile apps: https://duckduckgo.com/app
So it proves that you can use DuckDuckGo to immediately get the link with no fuss, and that Google Search is increasingly not designed to facilitate that kind of interaction.
[0]: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
The links obviously works, but if you want it to look nicer, why not just click and get the URL from the browser? That might even be faster depending on device and keyboard/touchscreen/mouse setup and usage.
This is easy enough [for me] to work around with browser developer tools on the desktop, but a PITA on, e.g., iOS, where these are not readily available.
Google could solve the problem without sacrificing telemetry by overriding the context menu for the link with an option to "show original link".
I just want the link :)
It proves that you don't understand how Google works.
Each search is custom to the person, profile, IP address, geolocation, search history, surfing history, purchase history, social media, and a thousand other trade secrets that Google holds. No two searches are the same.
This is why when Sally in Accounting searches for something on her work computer, and Mike in Facilities searches for the same thing on his phone they get different results.
There is little doubt that Sally, Mike, and everyone else, will get that website as the first result for that query on desktop, unless they specifically block English-language results.
I ended up in their google maps product on mobile and was clicking around between their reviews, their location on google maps, the opinions of other google users about what they thought crate and barrel was good at, pictures of crate and barrel stores, etc...
But I could not find their websites URL... not in what I would consider a reasonable amount of time at least.
Obviously I found it in the end.
But I couldn't help but think that Google really doesn't want me even going to the actual URL.
They want me to call and drive to the store using their phone and their google maps product, and leave a review on their platform, growing their company's value for them.
Crate and barrel and my original intentions be damned.