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Google has gotten really bad with the sponsored links. Not only are they only identified with a small "ad sponsored" disclaimer that is easy to miss on a phone screen but I've run into sponsored results that are blatant scams that I've had to report to google. Seemingly no effort on their part to screen these before they let them get posted.
I've also had to resort to altering my search engine results to always filter out quora and pinterest because they have gamed SEO so badly that they choke my results with garbage. Both demand you open accounts to see much (nope) and quora is a cesspool of bad answers and trolls.
Looking for product reviews is a real struggle. I'll see the same review plastered across a bunch of sketchy websites at the top of my results. They look like they only exist for manufacturers to post paid reviews.
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