Microsoft was caught testing way too many ads on its Bing Search results page. I saw 9 ads and only two organic/free listings on the page for a query on [garage door repair].
Gross but also… kinda curious from an A/B testing perspective to know when the user drop off happens. Kind of like, what’s the pain threshold before someone stops using shitty software. The answer really should be zero but the average user… ugh, it’s probably fucking 8 or 9 and we should be ashamed.
Too bad is Bing so the sample size is too small for any meaningful results.
singletona@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ew.
Tea@programming.dev 1 month ago
Next up they might test making the whole first page for ads, and the pages after that for search results.
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Hell, why even have organic search results at all? Just rank results by how much each site owner is willing to
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