That’s not a default Google screen. You’re missing the point if you’re showing screenshots that have been adulterated by third party tools that scrub parts of the page.
OP: “Google is paid by nefarious corporations to appear at the top of their results to change the social narrative.”
You: “wrong! It doesn’t happen on a completely different site, or if I use third-party tools to remove the links in question!”
Well, no doy.
Google is paid by corporations to sell you stuff based on your search. That’s the whole point of keyword based sponsoring. You can be searching for dildos, solar panels or marriage counseling and you’ll get sponsored links. It doesn’t say anything about the actual thing other than that someone is trying to profit off it. Dildos aren’t scam because someone is trying to sell me one when I search for them.
OP: “Google is paid by nefarious corporations to appear at the top of their results to change the social narrative.”
OP told me I’d get sponsored results as the top of the google search. I didn’t. Because I’m not some weirdo who chooses not to use an adblock, that’s a caveat OP left out.
If you want to see sponsored results, be my guest, but don’t assume everyone is like that.
You’re trying really hard to miss the point. I hope it makes you feel proud, or happy, or good in some way, dude, because it doesn’t really contribute to the conversation. You’re just derailing and making it about you. Yay, you.
What are you talking about? The point was that fossil fuel companies are promoting carbon capture. Not that google without adblock is going to show you sponsored content. Everyone knows that.
The point was that fossil fuel companies are promoting carbon capture.
Shell is one of the sponsored results for me for solar power. A Finnish gas giant was one of the results for recycling. Same for biodegradable products. For wind and hydro, the result was two large coal energy producers.
Does that tell “everything you need to know” about those or is it just a case of companies angling to make money out of something?
