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While I applaud Google for doing this, it's also very scary that Google has that much power that they can basically make anyone on the web do anything by threat
by nhumrich 10y ago
While I applaud Google for doing this, it's also very scary that Google has that much power that they can basically make anyone on the web do anything by threatening ranking blackmail.
Google is starting to use more grey area tactics to control things (such as disabling accounts for those who resold a pixel). Makes me start to actually worry about the power Google has.
- whiddershins 10y agoThis. And the conflict of interest is possibly anti-trust level. (IANAL) A company that gets the majority of their revenue from ads is penalizing sites in their near-monopoly search results for showing the "wrong" ads.
- whositis 10y agoThey have been doing this for a while. Look at the "safe browsing" stuff... Google will blacklist your website if it doesn't like the ads you're showing. That blacklist is used by firefox, chrome, safari. Your website will then just show a "safe browsing" blocked error. massive abuse of power. It's amazing that the company that controls most internet advertising, also controls which websites are blacklisted by the vast majority of browsers. Not using adsense? Maybe we blacklist that website until they use adsense! :) And the biggest problem is, there is no oversight, or communication or recourse. If your website gets blocked, you won't know why, and will just have to click a "reconsider" button to ask Google to see if it's acceptable now.
- SippinLean 10y agoIf their decisions suddenly stop being based on returning relevant results, and instead are focused on "blackmail" that erodes their brand, what incentive would they have to do that? Not to mention they said they were going to do this back in August. So far that hasn't "made" Quora, Yelp, or Pinterest stop doing anything.