Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'

Re:Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when y... by yread on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:44PM (#25720286)

It does make Signal's own ads more expensive.

I miss the old Google layout where it was crystal clear what is an ad. Nowadays, you can't even blame normal people that they don't notice the tiny "Ad"

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Re:Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when y... by mcintyre1994 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:11PM (#25720614)

Do Signal buy ads against their own name in the App Store though? Despite adding Google-like search ads, Apple haven’t broken search and they’re always the first organic result for their name, so I don’t see why they would want to.

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Re:Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when y... by colejohnson66 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:58PM (#25721209)

What’s really annoying is searching for an app and it shows up in the search suggestions but doesn’t exist. For example, search “Red Robin” in the App Store and there’s a suggestion for it. But what shows up... Robinhood (with a DoorDash ad above it). Turns out Red Robin doesn’t have an app. But then why is it a search suggestion?

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Re:Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when y... by dhnajsjdnd on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:47AM (#25725940)

Apple is probably autocompleting based on the data from what people search for.

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Re:Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when y... by colejohnson66 on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:54AM (#25725988)

Or even the keywords attached to the ads (which would by why DoorDash shows up as an ad). It’s still frustrating sometimes.

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