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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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