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Basecamp is so full of shit here, they just don't want to have to pay for traffic and it's nothing to do with monopoly (if there were three major search engines
by s17n 7y ago
Basecamp is so full of shit here, they just don't want to have to pay for traffic and it's nothing to do with monopoly (if there were three major search engines, they'd all be selling the Basecamp keyword, because users don't care).
- josephd79 7y agoImagine having to pay 70k plus a month so people searching for your company name do not get redirected to a competitor using your company name to advertise their business. also lets be real there's really one 1 search engine.
- s17n 7y agoPersonally I don't have an ethical problem with search being pay to play. Regardless, I'm pretty sure having competition in the search space wouldn't solve the problem (because as I said, users don't care) - what basecamp really wants here is regulation / a stronger interpretation of trademark law.
- threatofrain 7y agoIt's on Google's users to decide whether or not the re-positioning of results puts Google behind Bing and others. If Apple uses Bing or DuckDuckGo instead of Google, what difference of quality would people see?
- crakhamster01 7y ago*70k per year