Just as the title says: Have you ever clicked on an ad, knowing it was an ad, on purpose? What ad was it? Why did you click it?
Curious because I realized I have not once in my life clicked on an ad shown online on purpose. Accidentally, and being tricked into clicking the wrong thing sure; never with intent though.
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They often do that to own more positions on the results page, and you don’t get to see their competition without scrolling or clicking on the next page.
If they don’t bid for that spot, couldn’t a fraudulent (or at least competing) site take it?
I’ve seen that happen for open source stuff
Isn’t it dumb that if I Google “Amazon” the top result is their ad and the next is the same link without the ad? Would make way more sense for the Amazon’s ad to be the top result if I googled “Wal-Mart”
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If you become their costumer - joke’s on you, because now you are paying them to pay Google.
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