Note: Article published by Autom.dev which, from a quick read of their homepage, seems like it scrapes Google search results in violation of Google's terms of service and sells those results to customers via an API. That's just my quick read of it, though, so this could be wrong.
Note: Irrelevant.
The reported behavior exists, does it not?
Anecdata: I've observed this behavior for several weeks already as a regular user without a Google account and there are countless comments from regular users reporting the same behavior.
It’s very relevant because the author has a conflict in interest. They can wax poetic about “open internet” but really their business depend on it.
Kagi also uses this
It's relevant to know when the source of information is biased due to a conflict of interest. The source's business is apparently scraping Google (and Bing, etc).