'Do you click the ads on Google?' poll discussion

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Poll between 10-17 August 2009:
Do you click the ads on Google?
When you’re searching whether Google or elsewhere, often “sponsored links” come at the top of the page and along the right hand column. These are adverts, which people pay to put there.
Which is closest to your view?
A. I wasn’t aware of the difference - 3% (288 votes)
B. I always ignore them (& use only the actual search results) - 47% (4941 votes)
C. I look at natural search results first (then the ads if that fails) - 29% (3045 votes)
D. I scan the ones on the top (if they’re good I’d click them) - 11% (1118 votes)
E. I scan all of them top & side (if they’re good I’d click them) - 8% (811 votes)
F. Who cares if they’re ads if they're effective? - 4% (399 votes)
Total Votes: 10,602
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Do you click the ads on Google?
When you’re searching whether Google or elsewhere, often “sponsored links” come at the top of the page and along the right hand column. These are adverts, which people pay to put there.
Which is closest to your view?
A. I wasn’t aware of the difference - 3% (288 votes)
B. I always ignore them (& use only the actual search results) - 47% (4941 votes)
C. I look at natural search results first (then the ads if that fails) - 29% (3045 votes)
D. I scan the ones on the top (if they’re good I’d click them) - 11% (1118 votes)
E. I scan all of them top & side (if they’re good I’d click them) - 8% (811 votes)
F. Who cares if they’re ads if they're effective? - 4% (399 votes)
Total Votes: 10,602
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Every click costs 'em money
They obviously do work though or all these companies wouldn't keep using them (have used myself and they are effective advertising).
I don't trust some of those sponsored ads. You've only got to google CCCS and see all the fakes that come up.
They are quite misleading too, my dad who has only recently started using the internet thought they were the "proper" results and always clicked on them. I've since put him straight
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I've heard about that - don't companies like Orange et al (normally any company that runs an advert saying 'search for ... online') pay Google etc so the first thing that comes up when you type the phrase in is their website? So for Orange, if you typed in 'I am' the first thing in the natural results will be the Orange website.
To answer the poll question, I go with the natural results first so am probably closer to C than B.
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