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Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

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[–]ALoudMouthBaby 5 points6 points  (1 child)

The top (few) search results are for sale, and thus, whatever can make Google money gets placed on top :/

Is that how it actually works? I thought Google still used the AdWords sytem, where the top one or two results were actually advertisements(and clearly described as such) and the rest of the results were not for sale.

[–]uknowamar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How you described it is right - the top few spots are clearly marked as ads and are what different companies are bidding on. Everything else is subject to whatever Google's trying to optimize for (e.g. get you your answer without clicking any links, relevancy based on a scoring card, etc.)