There's Something Wrong With Google Search Results
Too Long; Didn't Read
41% of the first page of search results on mobile devices are taken up by Google products, an investigation by The Markup has found. For one in five searches in our sample, links to external websites did not appear on the first screen at all. Google makes five times as much revenue through advertising on its own properties as it does selling ad space on third-party websites. In 2000, Google only returned ‘organic’ results, ads, and a category header. Now the top of the page is full of Google products and “answers” on the search page.