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Re:How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search by hoveringhen on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:35AM (#40438721)
> Also they're often criticised for overrunning verticals with their own offerings. My favourite example being celebritynetworth.

Sorry didn't get this, what do you mean exactly?

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Re:How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search by ricardo81 on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:17PM (#40445879)
Beyond 10 blue links, certain niches organic results have been pushed down the page and placed under G specific results (when I say certain, nowadays it's most).

Celebritynetworth is an example of this where a site had some unique content, G apparently realised that lots of people search for such stuff, asked the owner for an API and then eventually scraped it. A rough version of events, more details below.

There are lots of examples of well performing sites/niches where similar has happened.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG...

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Re:How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search by hoveringhen on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:09PM (#40457929)
Very interesting, thanks for the link!
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