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[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with search. Just advertising. They’ll remain in search results as long as they don’t take the page down and remain otherwise complaint with search policies.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -3 points 8 months ago

Google's search algorithm is equally opaque and almost certainly driven by advertisers as well. This is a well known problem.