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Re:Changes in rankings of smartphone search results by bad_user on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @05:55AM (#5867320)
Oh, how much I hate websites that invite me to download their stupid app. And to add insult to injury, whenever I tried installing their stupid apps, it's usually just a glorified, broken and slow embedded browser.

I also hate websites that give me a commercial that I have to skip to get to the actual content. The invitation for downloading their stupid app is just a use-case for such commercials.

Google should penalize all websites that do this and I would love them for doing it.

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Re:Changes in rankings of smartphone search results by untog on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @10:37AM (#5868276)
You want Google to penalise web sites that push ads aggressively?

Right.

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Re:Changes in rankings of smartphone search results by moultano on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @11:18AM (#5868534)
http://searchengineland.com/too-many-ads-above-the-fold-now-...

Google already does that.

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Re:Changes in rankings of smartphone search results by drivebyacct2 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:32PM (#5868973)
I don't get this snark. Ads work because they provide some value to someone that causes them to click. If simply inundating someone with ads was enough to make "advertising" work, then Google wouldn't exist and we'd all be Don Drapers.
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