by rss feed | Apr 30, 2025 | Google, Google AI overviews problems, Google Search vs. Gemini, News Feeds
Readers of The Niche will probably recall that I’ve been critical of Google Search on stem cells. The search engine giant does unintended promotion of unproven stem cells and the clinics that sell them, like a Ukrainian clinic whose website Google still seems to...
by rss feed | May 10, 2022 | Google, News Feeds, stem cell clinical trials, stem cell clinics
A planned change to the Google ads policy will allow some ads for unproven cell and gene therapies. This shift, allowing educational ads, was just announced. I have a few concerns about this change that will start in July. Google ads policy and stem cells This move...
by rss feed | Apr 19, 2022 | Google, News Feeds, stem cell clinics
In trying to figure out how unproven stem cell clinics get so many customers, I’ve found that these firms can in part thank Google. I recently wrote a guest piece on STAT News about this problem and called on Google to fix it. However, just this week I stumbled...
by rss feed | Mar 15, 2022 | Bioinformant, DVC Stem, Fact-check, GIOSTAR, Google, Google ad ban, Google stem cells, News Feeds
A clinic called DVC Stem selling unproven stem cells has popped up prominently on the web in the last couple of years. It’s a relatively new and in some ways puzzlingly dominant presence on the stem cell section of the Internet at the moment. We should pay...
