Google is testing verified checkmarks in search

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• MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ddg already have this for some sites.

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  • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Excellent example choice lmao

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    • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the best example in my opinion, because it is full of fake versions of popular piracy sites because Google hides the originals.

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• TheLugal@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We regularly experiment with features that help shoppers identify trustworthy businesses online[…]

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, I think there is a “shopping” tab when you perform a search through them.

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah that’ll fix it’s completely broken search.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not broken, for google. It does exactly what they want, which is to help them gather data and manipulate people.

    At work, we discussed this as a future issue in about 2000, when we saw it gaining major search share.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah we are not google. It is broken.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  inb4 they hand these out for anyone whos paying

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    8 bucks a month

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• bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now if they could just stop putting ad results above the app you search for in the Play store.

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL people use the play store for stuff besides just a rare update and apparently browse it…

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t even mean browsing! Just trying to install something.

      I search for “NordVPN” (because all the cool YouTubers use it!) and the first result is “Norton 360” with an install button.

      It’s a “sponsored result” and it’s easy to install the wrong thing if you’re used to it actually finding the thing you just typed in.

      If I put Firefox. I get duckduckgo. Okay, maybe not so bad and pretty obvious. But I’ve had these things for apps that almost look like the legitimate one.

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• ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this is a good idea to hotfix a stupid problem.

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  • Sakychu@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And what problem would that be?

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    • chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Getting 4 sponsored links and an AI overview before I get to the search results.

      It’s basically all the shit Yahoo did to lose their search dominance.

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    • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I assume SEO spam?

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    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Malware disguised as legitimate software getting served as ads.

      Just a few months ago people were shown faked websites for obs studio when searching for the original. They should vet whose ads they’re serving instead of just certifying certain corporations.

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• PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  that might be useful i guess if google hadn’t shredded every tiny piece of trust we had in them

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• recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is so stupid. God forbid they actually police their ads for malware. No, instead let’s push the responsibility onto the individual, by adding get another “Papers, Please”-esque stamp that very few people will know about and even less will actually use.

  Hard pass. The day I saw them promoting malware above legitimate search results is the day I turned on ad blocking for my entire org, and a stupid little pay-to-verify badge isn’t going to change that.

  /end rant

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  • xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One way they make money. One way they’d need to spend it. It’s against capitalism to do the latter.

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• Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rare W from Google

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• potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally something that is a positive. This is well-needed nowadays.

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  • Badeendje@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why? Google should just police their results. Offering a fake Microsoft in your results means you failed providing the service you claimed to offer.

    This is either pay to play… and that means google will earn money from fraudsters. Or it will look at certificates… just aite matches certificate… must be good.

    Decades worth of whack a mole could have been used to train an AI to actually help here… but we made a glorified word guesser instead.

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