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Any business without physical inventory that can be automated in a way to sell/buy should really worry about Google. Eventually Google will come for that market
by dba7dba 7y ago
Any business without physical inventory that can be automated in a way to sell/buy should really worry about Google. Eventually Google will come for that market as their new crop of managers/execs will want to make the number to get their bonus and move up the ladder.
I know a guy who used to work at tripadvisor years ago. At the time Google was trying to start up their own hotel search business but they didn't have the reviews. So Google was initially using reviews submitted to tripadvisor by tripadvisor's reviews. I believe there had been prior agreement for Google to use tripadvisor's reviews for a fee/beter-search-ranking in return?
Anyhow, tripadivisor didn't like what was happening so was in the process of telling google that they will stop the arrangement.
And a google exec in the meeting threatened tripadivisor execs that google will lower tripadivisor in the search results, if tripadvisor did stop the arrangement.
This bit was apparently shared in a regularly scheduled company wide meeting.
- bobbiechen 7y agoThere's a similar story from Jeremy Stoppelman about Google scraping Yelp content in 2010 even though their licensing agreement ended in 2007. Source is the Senate Antitrust Committee hearing in 2011 on Google's dominance, the BI link below includes the exhibits as well. https://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-ceo-on-google-2011-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/yelp-ceo-on-google-2011-9
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoI'm sure they'll get fined $1M in 2036 or something. That'll even it all out.
- objektif 7y agoThere is a name for that right? "Be fucking evil if it doesn't cost much" or something like that.
- eropple 7y agoI don’t remember exactly how it was shared at Trip, and I think it was “Google Travel” or something rather than just a hotel booking platform, but that story generally lines up with my recollections from 2011-2012. Reading this thread made it come to mind again and I was wondering how it had turned out...