Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by speedgoose on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:12PM (#22606373)

I'm quite sure I see Google products and services on top of Google search.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by iscrewyou on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:48PM (#22606892)

And Google gets scrutinized for that. Now it’s Verizon’s turn. It’s good to know what and when these companies are doing.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by IAmEveryone on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:29PM (#22612695)

But those are easily recognised as Google properties, allowing you to easily scroll past if you want to avoid them.

That's vastly different from selling "organic" rankings, or boosting your own products.

As an analogy: Google's approach is like The New York Times printing full-page ads for "NYT Caribbean Cruises" or whatever their side businesses are, while what Verizon is doing is as if The Washington Post ran "12 Great Products Now on Amazon" articles indistinguishable from their articles.

To give an idea of how strict the latter would break with tradition: I once designed a full-page ad in the New York Times for a non-profit event. They made us change the design because ads are not allowed to use a 4(?)-column layout. Their own design is also 4-column and they want ads to stand out. The same applies to fonts, colours, etc.

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