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Re:Ask HN: Why do Google/App Store search show ads and the r... by waythenewsgoes on Sunday February 20, 2022 @12:14AM (#30403397)
People / Companies who buy ads pay google to get their result to show up. Essentially if a user clicks the paid link its going to make more money for google than if you click the organically produced search result, so they have a financial incentive to show you the paid link, even if it is redundant (points to the same thing).

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