Google’s Top Search Result ? Surprise ! It’s Google
▻https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors?campaig
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page In Google’s early years, users would type in a query and get back a page of 10 “blue links” that led to different websites. “We want to get you out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible,” co-founder Larry Page said in 2004. Today, Google often considers that “right place” to be Google, an investigation by The Markup has found. We (...)