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> I don't find free services that show me ads I can easily ignore scary.

Please tell me how to ignore google search and google maps.



By using duckduckgo and openstreetmap. I've been using both for many years and they are quite good, I would say.


On iOS luckily enough I found Apple Maps to have crossed the good enough threshold for most of my purposes and area, except for the occasional live and timetable transit info.


Google search: alight your eye on the first result that is not clearly and distinctly marked "Ad" (you may have to scroll.)

For example I did this search since I expected it to be heavily ad-based:

http://i.imgur.com/j4ezbjF.png

everything above the fold (visible in my browser) was an ad. I then scrolled down and got to the organic search results:

http://i.imgur.com/hlVB36Q.png

Those are not advertisements. There is nothing to ignore. Google is not paid to show me those, and they fight link-spammers every day to attempt to get the best organic results.

I find Google's search results ads to be exceedingly easy to ignore. I also find them useful and sometimes click them.


I think seanwilson is saying that the ads are easily ignorable.


By like ... not using them?




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