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Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? by sergiotapia on Friday May 22, 2020 @09:15PM (#23278916)
Google recently started doing this. I literally never click google ads, and today about four times I've click on ads because the thing I want is result #1 but just as I'm about to click three ads load in and I click the first ad.
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Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? by ahartmetz on Saturday May 23, 2020 @04:38AM (#23281194)
Wild guess: it's a bug but it looked good in A/B testing. The change was supposed to increase ad click rates and it did. Job well done, ship it!
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Re:I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? by huffmsa on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:14AM (#23281410)
I swear I've had images and videos switch places as I'm clicking on the search results tab.

Or maybe I have 15 years of expectation that images is going to be the second tab.

Edit: nope, just did a search, it started web images videos then right when the page finished loading it switched to web videos images

So only does search not work anymore, it's unnavigable

Edit 2: it's not just video, it rearranges the tabs based on relevance. "John wick" will move videos to the second spot. "San Francisco" will move news second and maps 3rd.

I get it, but I also don't.

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