Which I still don't like for real searching.

They can scroll down you know. Also, what do they expect searching for "auto mechanic"?

And cuter. And not surveiled (they don't keep any history, so they don't have any to turn over).

is where I go, I set my preferences where no cookies are allowed. Only DU has a cookie on my computer right now. When I go to ebay for instance I have it set so I allow a cookie for session only. Once I close out ebay the cookie is gone. I find this to be the best way to not have to put up with a lot of bullshit while on the internet.
I specifically have google blocked from putting a cookie on my computer. I like it that way too.

For those who don't know, Google's AdWords division sends out messages to website owners advising them they'd make more money if they'd put more ads on their site.

At the same time, Google's Search division penalizes sites for having too many ads--regardless if they're Google ads or not.

Google has made too many decisions that I feel are VERY unfair to webmasters, so I don't use Google for search any longer. Last year, websites were removed from Google's search index because there were bad links pointing to those sites from "bad" sites. Google just assumed the owner of the site was responsible for those links, so it penalized their sites. No questions, no chance to correct...nothing.

I know of a couple of sites that were penalized, no connection with them other than they were good sites with good information. They got hit for the "bad links" penalty. Proof enough to me that sometimes the best sites won't show up in a Google search, for stupid reasons like this.

Google is very hypocritical, penalizing sites for having too many ads when their search results are a mess of ads with very little content on the page.

I have a very small collection of fly reels, one model by a single manufacturer that came in two versions and four sizes, for eight reels in total. I had found 6 of the 8 within a couple of years but the last two, and particularly the last one, were nearly impossible to find. Every day for nine years I did the same search on Google just trying to find any mention of one of the reels. Then I found Bing and on the very first search I located one of the reels, in England, brand new on a dealer's shelf; probably the last one on earth that had never been out of the box. I called the seller and asked if they actually had the thing, which they did (the man told me it had been on their shelf for 14 years), and how much the taxes and shipping would be and of course I bought it right then and there (plastic by phone).

Score, Bing 1, Google 9 years worth of daily zeros.

"Organic" search results aren't the only "real" results on the page. The AdWords (paid) search results at the top and right side are no less "real." They are every bit as likely to be relevant to the user's search query (keywords) as organic results. More so, if the user is searching for a product or service...a Wiki page isn't going to be of much use to such a searcher.

If they're doing a purely informational search (that is, looking for data, articles, etc., and not for some sort of product), parsing their search query in a simple manner (like using "blah blah wiki" or "articles on blah blah&quot will reduce the number of ads (often to zero) and bring informational links to the top of the organic results. Really broad searches (like "travel" or "cars&quot is going to net a lot of ads and it'll be pretty random if the organic results for the first few pages are of any use...but that's not Google's fault. The user should learn to use search better.

If you really don't want to see ads (and have more privacy), use DuckDuckGo. It uses Google's search engine and data index...but essential;y severs the connection between user and Google...and has no ads.

I've got 3 paid ads at the top (at most 5% of page area), followed by about 10 local mechanics and their phone numbers and a map on the right, followed by a dozen other hits of various types, including a youtube, automd, aaa, and other useful things. Then finally a "Searches related to auto mechanic" listing.

Very helpful and nicely organized.

Your google search results page looks very different from mine. I don't know why that is.

I just did the same search (on a normal screen, not one of those tiny Macbooks that are only owned by an expendable minority) and got roughly the same result. Until I scrolled. If you re-do the match using the ENTIRE result set, and not just the tiny bit that shows up when you elect to ignore a web function that has been common since 1993, the ads take up less than a quarter of the page overall.