Google Search Pay For Ranking

[Ducksauce]

Every 6 months, Google reduces the shade of the back ground of it's Adwords Ads, it has reached the point that with a LCD screen, it is very difficult indeed to tell that they are in fact sponsored links. Not just kinks but they look exactly the same as the search results now.

This has essentially made Google search, a pay for high rankings search engine.

Sad day.

[Mary Wilhite]

Originally Posted by Ducksauce

Every 6 months, Google reduces the shade of the back ground of it's Adwords Ads, it has reached the point that with a LCD screen, it is very difficult indeed to tell that they are in fact sponsored links. Not just kinks but they look exactly the same as the search results now.

This has essentially made Google search, a pay for high rankings search engine.

Sad day.

Well, there are always two sides to every story.

For those who have enough time resource to do SEO
and depend on organic traffic it's definitely a
disadvantage because whatever they
do, there will always be a site higher than theirs.

However, for advertisers and marketers who are totally
inexperienced in SEO, it gives them a chance to dominate
their keywords by using another resource, their cash.

[AmyKay]

It's always been a pay for high ranks search engine, hasn't it?

Interesting about the background color, though. I hadn't noticed it changing.

[Greg guitar]

Originally Posted by AmyKay

It's always been a pay for high ranks search engine, hasn't it?

Interesting about the background color, though. I hadn't noticed it changing.

Perhaps in the sense that you can pay for link packages, people to do various SEO tasks, automation tools, etc, but not in the sense that Google orders their natural results based on people paying Google. There is a meaningful distinction between free and paid results, and the OP has a point, if Google is indeed trying to erase the visible evidence of that distinction.