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Microsoft Tests 9 Ads & Only One Free Search Results On Same Page. (www.seroundtable.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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].

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Do people actually use Bing??? Apart from the ms reward

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yup! It provides the results for DuckDuckGo.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

I use its image search to study human anatomy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a lot better nowadays than Google, so I do, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

duckduckgo is mostly based on bing results so you could try that too.