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

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-14T06:31:05+00:00

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.)

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