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I am a Google costumer, as in, I pay Google to show my ads in search. To me a literal monopoly is obvious, no other competitor comes even close to Google in pe
by speeder 6y ago
I am a Google costumer, as in, I pay Google to show my ads in search.
To me a literal monopoly is obvious, no other competitor comes even close to Google in performance of search ads, but Google keep increasing in hostility too, they do everything they figure out they can get away with, like blatantly allowing click fraud, making fighting fraud harder, allowing people to use it's tools for extortion via fraud, and so on.
I really want to not use Google, but I have to.
- ximeng 6y agoThe problem is Apple / FB / Microsoft / Amazon all want to step in the minute Google gets kicked back. It's structural centralization.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoExactly. Given the statement from above: > it is exceptionally difficult to make the case that any of these companies are causing consumer harm, which is the de facto standard for antitrust in the United States. My fundamental issue is that "consumers" are not the customers here, the customers are the ad purchasers, and those are the ones where it's very easy to show the harm.
- mountainb 6y agoThat's also where prices have gone up, up, and up versus staying free, free, and free.
- edoceo 6y agoAnd google blocks my cannabis related business from advertising. But allows my direct competitors to advertise. Including the word Cannabis in the ad! Why is google allowing one cannabis play but not the other? I'm the ad consumer being harmed. My prospects are possibly harmed because my product is hidden.
- cj 6y agoAnd since you're not able to bid on your brand name, Google is allowing your competitors to bid on your brand name while preventing you, which clearly is unfair to you and potentially very misleading to consumers trying to find your site, but being tricked into clicking to a (potentially less trustworthy) competitor.