This issue has been discussed a million times on various blogs around the web, what is wrong with UK results?

The latest results I take a bitter dislike to today is for ‘books’. 1st, 2nd and 4th position are taken by Google with their .com .co.uk and .com.br and Amazon in 3rd, as well as adding news results and locations. I have been under the impression that Google were all for making the whole process easy and wanted to display the best results as quickly as possible.

So not only are they taking up the results with their own results, which I’m sure are not earnt like the rest of us have to earn them, but they add in their News and Location results as well which I don’t normally mind, making any relevant result at the bottom of the page and even demoted to the second page therefore going against their own ethos.

I don’t imagine for one second that this has anything to do with the dispute between Google and Amazon and I’m sure surrounding the Amazon result is purely a coincident due to the well documented results problem.

I know Google are a business and all businesses have to make money to survive, but come on this is just taking advantage and monopolising a very popular search term.
We have all seen the dubious international results being returned in UK search results but this is just going a bit too far, come on Google, try and fix the issue.

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