FIANLLY rid of google's damn shopping tab!!

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At the very most, it's a link to a place where there are adverts. Are you so sure that it's not a product search though?

Tib, it doesn't look like ads because Google is deliberately being deceptive about it. Even you're fooled by it!

But even the screenshot that you posted shows that all links in the Shopping "search" are ads:



Their own URL (which has since changed) also explicitly said "ads": http://www.google.com/ads/shopping/getstarted.html

Google removed the product search feature on 31 May 2012, permanently. I used to use the product search, however I have never and will never use their premium shopping search as it disadvantages smaller retailers - plus they're ads and I abhor ads. The results are listed by order of the highest payer, instead of how product search worked which was in organic order.

Here's an explanation:

Yes, Shopping is in the drop-down sometimes, but it can appear in any position in the tab-bar (except in the no-script version where it appears to appear in only one spot, however I've altered the code now so that it'll remove it wherever it is in the no-script tab bar). I've also commented the code now on the OP (there's one section I can't remember where it blocks the link right now). And I've simplified the rules now as well.

Certainly doesn't look like those are all paid listings, and the text at the bottom says "Google is compensated by some of these merchants." ("some" being the important word there).

When I click the button it does not say "some" (see screenshot), it says "Google IS compensated by these merchants."