news “Domain Name” is a pay-to-play search term on Google

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For all of Google’s talk about how website owners need to provide good content above the fold, not just ads, Google.com has become a bunch of ads. Today I was searching for “domain name” (no quotes) and this is what I saw above the fold:

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[MadAboutDomains]

I have also noticed this for other terms. Google is flooded with Ads now. It's difficult to see the wood for the trees.

It's a lot more difficult to know where the ads are now on mobile, because the search results are no longer pages, but one long list that expands. They used to appear a few and the bottom and the top of each page.

 

[.X.]

It has turned into one big cesspool of advertising IMO, a lot of begging for business going on in those search results. they never practice what they preach, sometimes my search results are nothing short of link farms these days.

 

[BaileyUK]

It's almost automatic these days. you drop to the middle of the search results on page 1 or even straight to page 2 before even bothering to look at the results or click a link