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There is a description of a 409a above the fold. So I don’t think it’s totally fair to say the results are all below.

Agree, that's an answer box, not part of the ad. It happens to come from the same domain as the ad (and that may not be coincidental) but they don't always.

It also depends on many factors like your screen resolution. Most site I go to on my small laptop, 80% of the screen is covered with ads.

Your ad blocker is badly misconfigured. I don't see any ads in Google search.

The thing is, even if you block ads with a browser extension, that will not bring the below the fold material above the fold!

Yes it does? If the ads disappear and they leave an empty space, then again this is a case of a misconfigured ad blocker.

If Google serves you a page of ten results, but nine of them are ads, how is the blocker supposed block those nine in such a way that you see ten results?

I think you'd need a full-blown search scrubbing extension of some sorts that gets all the results and rearranges the entire UI.

A compromise is to simply crank up your results per page in the Google Search settings. The maximum value is 100. For most searches, that's well past the short head of useless info and into its long tail.

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