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Google Ads Dynamic Ad Placement Continues To Test Ads Mixed Within Organic Results
(www.seroundtable.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Anybody still using Google should take a deep long look in the mirror. Not for any moral reasons, just a sort of "how much do I enjoy wasting time skipping adds" reason. It's what made me switch to a different search engine. Because Google is becoming borderline unusable with how far down the actual results are now.
Personally I just use an ad blocker
Why not use another search engine, and still use an adblocker?
I've tried a couple and they all return worse results on average. Scrolling down past the LLM garbage and paying attention to which results are real is less work than re-querying DDG 4 times to get a decent result.
I haven't tried kagi, but I've heard similar anecdotes here on Lemmy. I'm not opposed to paying. The ad model is unsustainably at best.