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Google to Disparage Pop-Up and Interstitial Adverts

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 24 2016, @12:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the reducing-competition? dept.

butthurt writes:

The Verge reports on an announcement by Alphabet subsidiary Google that, beginning in January, it will change the way Web sites are ranked in results from its search engine. Sites featuring pop-up windows or interstitial adverts may appear lower in the results than they now do.

According to an Alphabet press release, 90% of Google's revenues during the first quarter of 2016 came from advertising.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:34PM (#392714)

    When I search Google for something, I expect the resulting page to contain, you know, content that I am searching for.

    Nowadays it's often not the website's fault but Google's fault. Even "verbatim" mode doesn't work so well anymore.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @07:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @07:12PM (#392733)

    Even "verbatim" mode doesn't work so well anymore

    Yeah.
    It used to be that Google would interpret a.search.string.like.this as a phrase[1] and you didn't have to "do it like this".
    (You didn't end up with a bunch of %22's in your URL.)

    [1] Hyphens between words also worked--but in a slightly different (and useful) way.

    They broke backwards-compatibility with that some years back when they "improved" their search by dumbing it down (when they made their tilde search the default).
    Several weeks later, they'd gotten so much bitching from non-stupid legacy users that they added Verbatim search.
    The way they did Verbatim Search, it *was* backwards-compatible with the old paradigm.

    Google recently did another of their semiannual rejiggerings of their search site.
    This time, they broke the.dots.thing in Verbatim Search as well.
    I suspect they hired someone who had never eaten Google's dog food and had no clue how Google's search works beyond Stupid Mode--but just the same he was allowed to alter the way the codebase works.

    Google is increasingly becoming less backwards-compatible with itself and, as a result, less useful for me.

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