cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23941424
Blue ticks, but for business web links.
Anyone who has had to troubleshoot anything Windows related knows just how useless anything from a Microsoft website is.
Lets trust the company with an illegal monopoly with verification checkmarks I am sure nothing will go wrong.
Thus forcing everone to wonder why, if they believe some results are fraudelent, they are showing them to us at all.
Hovering over a checkmark will display a message that explains “Google’s signals suggest that this business is the business that it says it is,” which is determined by things like
I guess this due diligence cost time and money. And doing this due diligence for every ad customer might affect their bottom line.
I wonder how much they’ll charge for it.
The playbook as I understand it is that they offer a community improvement for free at first to get you hooked and then once everyone is entirely reliant upon it that’s when they do the rug pull.
So there is a good chance that Google search will improve for the next 6 to 18 months while they are doing this just know that this is a temporary reprieve from the enshittification solely to prime the engine for the enshittification to get massively worse.
