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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by plywoodtrees on Friday October 18, 2013 @05:43PM (#6574205)
The organic results are a list of sofa vendors, each with pretty boring text descriptions like "we offer great sofas at great prices and with up to 4 years interest free credit available, there has never been a better time to buy! ‎Fabric Sofas - ‎Famous Brands - ‎Leather Sofas - ‎Carpets". Similarly on Bing and DDG. There is not much to choose between them.

A page full of blah blah sofas is not very helpful if I'm looking to buy a sofa.

To me it seems actually more useful (and attractive) to show photos, prices and filters in the "Shopping" results seem actually much more attractive and useful, or a map, or some kind of ratings.

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by rtkwe on Friday October 18, 2013 @07:32PM (#6574629)
That's the thing I've never gotten about many of the examples of 'zomg-too-many-ads' they're mostly searches that you'd normally be looking to buy an item off of.

On a side note I don't actually get the map results most of the time anymore. Guess I'm in a separate test group.

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by grogenaut on Saturday October 19, 2013 @04:04AM (#6575734)
the point is google should be showing me good results, not just what I can find in the yellow pages.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by plywoodtrees on Saturday October 19, 2013 @05:59AM (#6575919)
You have a yellow pages?
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by grogenaut on Saturday October 19, 2013 @02:35PM (#6577311)
Touche. But yes I do. They make excellent sources for paper for camp fires
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