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Re:Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019) by PaulHoule on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:34AM (#31582355)
Most directly, if the search results were perfect you would never need to click on an ad.

The most evil thing Google is doing now is pushing brands to buy ads on their own name so that they appear above the organic #1 search result. It's like the time Facebook decided it wouldn't send messages to followers who like you unless you paid up.

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Re:Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019) by magicalist on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:42AM (#31583504)
> The most evil thing Google is doing now is pushing brands to buy ads on their own name

It's not like this is a new thing. The court cases about it are almost 20 years old: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Louis_Vuitton

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