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Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by fingerlocks on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:21AM (#22792324)
If you click the “search instead for...” then the non-video result was exactly what I believe you wanted.
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Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by mattmanser on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:58PM (#22798307)
The point is, why is it doing this?

It's not even suggesting both God of War and Lord of War, for me all the results on the first page are about God of War.

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Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by hvis on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:36PM (#22799307)
It's probably correcting people's typos, as well as saving a crap-ton of money this way (search results are undoubtedly cached).
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Re:How SEO Ruined the Internet by eitland on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @05:24AM (#22801652)
At the cost of destroying their once in-its-own-league quality.

Today I use DDG mostly, thanks to Googles choices. DDG is equally bad WRT this but

- it is easier to move from DDG to Google (just add !g) than the other way around

- and DDG isn't as invasive

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