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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by thetrb on Friday October 18, 2013 @05:19PM (#6574077)
"jwt web toolkit" and "neutron spin echo" are your best examples of results that might contain ads?

How about "playstation 4" for example?

Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by plywoodtrees on Friday October 18, 2013 @05:48PM (#6574236)
I get one ad there. The first organic result is the Sony homepage. The second is the wikipedia page.

Seems pretty reasonable.

Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by rprospero on Friday October 18, 2013 @07:04PM (#6574539)
Those weren't my best examples of pages that might contain ads. They were my last two Google searches. If was I looking for ads, I'd probably search of acai berry or something similar. However, I had understood the original complain to be that you're assaulted with Google ads on all searches, not just the ones where you're intentionally looking for ads.

I guess the main place where I was unfair to the parent was his comment that not recognizing his comment that:

>There is no longer a big push for 'finding things on the web' which was the appeal of early search engines, now the bulk of the web use search as their portal to a giant reference library and product catalog.

I do use it as a reference library, but almost never as a product catalog. I imagine that, if I used Google to search for things to buy, there would be far more ads, but that forms a negligible part of my internet usage.