On Wednesday, 4 of the tech CEOs testified before some Congressional committee and one or more asked the Google guy about search results, saying that google sites were given priority, or something like that.
What was he talking about? Are you sure or only surmising?
Is he talking about the top 2 hits that are clearly marked "Ad"? It doesn't bother me that they put advertising first, and I ignore it most of the time, unless my search question is unlikely to find something specific, or I see that it hasn't.
I use google advanced search and have been eliminating hits that contain "pinterest" .. I don't know who owns pinterest - but it sure is prominent noise in my searches. " - pinterest " or similar in a normal google search might do the same thing < ? >
Also - sometimes I will add " edu " or " gov " to increase the chances of finding a more-useful hit. Clearing the browser cache regularly also gives them a little less to target you with. John T.
Google always pushes their paid ads to the top of the stack. I used to use Scroogle until Google shut them down. They stripped the ads and the difference in the hits was striking. They also were not tracking the user. It is getting harder to stay anonymous these days, virtually impossible for normal browsing.
I actually prefer to not be anonymous for normal browsing because google is smart enough to work out that I like wikipedia and usually shows a wikipedia article on the first page except with medical stuff.
Most of the time, I don't want to buy one, I just want information. Wading through a page of ads to get there is cumbersome. Scroogle usually popped up what you were looking for right away. It was such a threat to Google's ad revenue that they specifically rewrote the front end of their search engine to kill them.
The fact that it totally anonymized the search was nice too if privacy means anything to you.
Which defaults to DuckDuckGo for searches. It can be amusing when you hit an Amazon page and the price is in Deutsche marks or guilders.
For further amusement we use TimeTrex for payroll management. I have no idea how it happened but when I logged in this morning the screens were in Magyar. I can hack my way through most Germanic or Romance languages but a Uralic language is out of my league. I'd be better off with Russian.
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