Every once in a while I'll do a search on Google from a browser with no blocker for something like 'ebay' or some other big brand name and I'm always surprised to see that big brand name has bought ads for themselves, it never made sense since they're always the first search result anyways.
Now I can only assume two things...
1. Some number of those ads were scams
2. Some large number of people just blindly click on the first thing they see below the search box as long as it's close to whatever they search for.
Somewhat related... always surprised to see what search results come up in the IOS app store first for whatever app I'm searching for at the time. It's usually something else, like, search for Uber, first thing that comes up is Lyft.
Now I can only assume two things...
1. Some number of those ads were scams 2. Some large number of people just blindly click on the first thing they see below the search box as long as it's close to whatever they search for.
Somewhat related... always surprised to see what search results come up in the IOS app store first for whatever app I'm searching for at the time. It's usually something else, like, search for Uber, first thing that comes up is Lyft.