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Excellent Comment Let's consider a few more examples of abuse of market dominance 1) Retail Me Not Google through Google Venture secretly invested in them an
by switch11 6y ago
Excellent Comment
Let's consider a few more examples of abuse of market dominance
1) Retail Me Not
Google through Google Venture secretly invested in them and didn't disclose that
Then for next 3 years, Retail Me Not was #1 for EVERY SINGLE deal and coupon search term on Google
Is that an abuse of market dominance? Pretty Sure
Is it illegal? According to US Anti Trust Law - not sure. A lawyer can step in
2) A market we are in
The largest 2 players (us and another company) are #40 and #41 when people search for the biggest key word
Not #2, Not #10
At #40 and #41
Who is in the Top 10?
companies that advertise A LOT on Google, even though they are distant 4th and 6th in the market
Not only that, they do it in blatant ways
Last year, they pumped up organic traffic to one of our competitors THIRTY TIMES over night
So, the top two companies (another company and us) saw ZERO CHANGE
However, a company that is a distant 4th in the market suddenly got its organic search engine traffic increased 30 times
Pretty sure in 3 or 4 years it will be revealed that Google invested in them or did some tie up
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Google is basically using Search as a weapon
- apahwa 6y agothis comment acts like there is some person on Google's side manually curating the search results. why is it Google's fault that your competitors have better SEO teams?