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>It favors Google Finance and Youtube over its rivals in search results page. Finance is integrated with specific financial queries, so searching "goog" will s
by SquareWheel 10y ago
>It favors Google Finance and Youtube over its rivals in search results page.
Finance is integrated with specific financial queries, so searching "goog" will show stock history and similar. This is different from the actual search results however. It's similar to special queries for translations, definitions, conversions, and so on.
I can understand this being criticized, but I don't think it's an abuse of power in any way.
As for Youtube, that's just an extremely popular website. It ranks highly organically because it has tens of thousands of links coming in all the time. There's also always fresh content to index which Google ranks favorably. The site has every expectation of ranking highly. So I don't buy that one without some evidence.
- Macha 10y agoI mean, where do you expect links to go? If you look at the biggest websites there's: * Facebook,which has large portions of its content invisible to Google * Wikipedia, which is probably in the #1 spot * YouTube really is the next most likely result for many queries.