Blue ticks, but for business web links.
      • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
        51·
        2 年前

        It’s the best example in my opinion, because it is full of fake versions of popular piracy sites because Google hides the originals.
        And it is the only site I know ddg shows certification every time.

  • TheLugal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    80·
    2 年前

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

    I like that Google calls their users “shoppers” /s

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 年前

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

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      2 年前

      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.

      • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        2 年前

        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.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          15·
          2 年前

          Fun Fact: the current head of Google’s search is the same guy that was in charge of Yahoo’s search right before they folded their own search and just started licensing Bing.

        • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          2 年前

          You can disable the AI stuff and other nonsense if you do a “web” search, it’s in the list with images, videos etc. Theres also a thing you can add to a search url to do it - &udm=14.

        • Sakychu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 年前

          I can’t see how a checkmark is supposed to fixes these Problems. Aren’t the sponsored links not already marked as such?

      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 年前

        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.

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 年前

    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

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      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.