> But it could not be simpler or easier to bypass Google. My point was that your run-of-the-mill user doesn't do this. It is easy to bypass, but how many peopl

> But it could not be simpler or easier to bypass Google. My point was that your run-of-the-mill user doesn't do this. It is easy to bypass, but how many people actually do it? You're just saying to me that people should become power users or just accept that they're victims of manipulative advertising. Anyway, the rent they're charging is other products masquerading under Bootcamp's popular name. They're essentially charging Bootcamp rent so that "fraudsters" can't eat up the top positions in search results for your product. Grocery stores don't let a Cheerios knock-off named Cheerio-os sit on the end-caps because they paid more than Cheerios. If I go to my grocery store and ask for Cheerios, they'll take me to it - not Cheerio-os because they paid more for me to find them. It sounds like a racket to me. You can pay google to keep your company at the top of the search results, or they can break your kneecaps by making you hard to find. And why is rent-seeking behavior something that we want in a search engine we are supposed use to find relevant information?