I mean, I get your point, but you can pay for an ad that looks just like a google search result to be on the top of certain searches. This will often result in the ad link being the top result in the actual rankings. This is usually what people mean when they shit like this, and paying to be at the top of google search results.
We all know that Sundar Pichai wakes up first thing in the morning thinking “what do lemmy.world and lemm.ee admins want me to do today?”
“I can tell by the pixels!”
I mean, I get your point, but you can pay for an ad that looks just like a google search result to be on the top of certain searches. This will often result in the ad link being the top result in the actual rankings. This is usually what people mean when they shit like this, and paying to be at the top of google search results.