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SCLeo

Not saying I ditrust you, but do we know for sure that those are paids ads not unpaid sugesstions?

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I don't honestly think it matters. They're effectively ads in practice regardless of whether they're paid or not.

But I do get the feeling that "Kahoot", a mobile game I've literally never heard of, isn't an organic result.

I get zero suggestions for that within Google Chrome.

https://i.imgur.com/2uREs6u.png

I think it may be your own history popping up there.

I think there's some weird A/B test shenanigans going on with this one. I have a machine where some letters or whole words will get google search results and ads with images in the first few entries of the dropdown, but on my main machine it's just google searches and then history/bookmarks at the bottom.

It's not my own history because I have no history, I use Chrome exclusively for things that are completely broken on Firefox, which is mostly just 1 or 2 google websites.

Yeah, I think it might be A/B testing as well. I don't get any suggestions from typing K. Everything that popped up is from my history.

Also, not really related, but from my experience, Kahoot is really popular in education. I bet at least 80% of my classmates in college have used it at least once. I am a bit surprised you never heard about it.

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