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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by bushbaba on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:59PM (#30729252)
Search, "what hotel to stay in san francisco soma". You'll see that every single result above the fold is an Ad.

In fact it doesn't even give me a single useful piece of information. #1 result is a link to expedia. #2 is to hotels.com, #3 to the trip advisor. Scroll down Google Hotels widget. Then on the 3rd browser viewpoint page I get actual query results.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by emmelaich on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:36PM (#30729565)
The result I got was a list, with maps and prices with an option to refine stay dates.

Not sure how that could be improved to be honest.

Next entry was a non-ad from Tripadvisor.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by bushbaba on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:02PM (#30730182)
Here's my results: https://ibb.co/cv06gHg https://ibb.co/BwZX9FQ https://ibb.co/NCnBC6b
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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by emmelaich on Saturday March 19, 2022 @12:00AM (#30730855)
Yeah the second looks like what I got. (BwZX9FQ)
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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by heavyset_go on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:43AM (#30731441)
When weird search results get posted on HN, they're sometimes fixed within minutes. I wouldn't doubt that the search term was "fixed" by someone reading HN.
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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by asiachick on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:45PM (#30729633)
I got a list of hotels. not sure how it could be more useful

https://ibb.co/JxfY6BX

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by bushbaba on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:02PM (#30730183)
Here's my results: https://ibb.co/cv06gHg https://ibb.co/BwZX9FQ https://ibb.co/NCnBC6b
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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by unlikelymordant on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:32PM (#30730715)
You are using an adblocker though
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