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Why? Search is a service provided by a company trying to make money, just as a retailer. Just because it's an invaluable service now core to using the internet
by deanCommie 9y ago
Why? Search is a service provided by a company trying to make money, just as a retailer.
Just because it's an invaluable service now core to using the internet, doesn't make it a public utility.
Here's the actual difference:
If Google started blocking Amazon search results there would be an upoar.
Amazon has blocked selling certain Google items, and there is barely a whimper.
Here's the other difference: When GOogle shows Amazon search results, and users go through those results to make an Amazon purchase, Google gets a cut. That's how e-commerce works on the internet.
- noncoml 9y ago> Why? Search is a service provided by a company trying to make money, just as a retailer. I don't have any horses in this race, so I am not trying to take anybody's side, but since you ask, here is my opinion: A retailer is by default selecting what items to sell. A search engine is by default crawling everything. So one is kind of opt-in and the other opt-out.
- CaptSpify 9y agoThat's what a search engine should be. Google has strayed far away from that already.