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[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It's been said before: Google does not find you the best result for your query. Google finds you the result that makes them the most money from AdSense and has words from your query.

If Mozilla wasn't funded by Google, the best thing they could do is include a helpful/unhelpful ranking for websites, then filter Google results by that. Search should be social, not commercial.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Search should be social, not commercial.

this would be gamed by companies in the same way social media is used to advertise businesses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Potentially, but there is a reason adding "Reddit" to the end of a search is so common. It's basically up-voted search results.

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