Microsoft Tests 9 Ads On Bing Search Results Page
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Microsoft was caught testing way too many ads on its Bing Search results page. I saw 9 ads and only two organic/free listings on the page for a query on [garage door repair].

Microsoft was caught testing way too many ads on its Bing Search results page. I saw 9 ads and only two organic/free listings on the page for a query on [garage door repair].

  • Tea@programming.devOPEnglish
    39·
    1 day ago

    Next up they might test making the whole first page for ads, and the pages after that for search results.

    • wwb4itcgas@lemm.eeEnglish
      36·
      1 day ago

      Hell, why even have organic search results at all? Just rank results by how much each site owner is willing to bribe pay. A protection racket for the 21st century.

      “That’s a nice website you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if it got no visitors.”

        • wwb4itcgas@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          23 hours ago

          While I don’t mind laissez-faire in principle, that not my favorite anarcho-flavor and I don’t wanna :)

          • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            21 hours ago

            I am empathetic to wanting to be left alone. I am disturbed by their desire to tear down systems that protect others out of some a historic notion that we would be better off with out them

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              38 minutes ago

              Yup. I consider myself pretty laissez faire, but I too have my limits, which are way before I get within shouting distance of ancaps. I believe in Piguovian taxes and lean a bit Georgist for a tax baseline, which is already pretty far from ancapistan.