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No I don't have a complete understanding of the law in this area, but in simple terms it is because Google's search engine is designed to give users the most re
by corin_ 15y ago
No I don't have a complete understanding of the law in this area, but in simple terms it is because Google's search engine is designed to give users the most relevant results, and by giving their own brands preferential ranking (without an advertisement notification) they are misleading users and giving their brands an unfair advantage over their competitors.
I'm sure someone else here can go into a more detailed answer.
Side note: the only "meme" I've noticed is the idea that anyone would be presumed a lawyer unless they say "IANAL".
- yanw 15y agoBut who's to say what is "relevant"? and if the user doesn't think this is relevant to her, she can search elsewhere. I'm not even talking about links, there was this thing about the Google Flights result appearing for flight queries and some flight search sites (kayak and such) are up in arms about it, so here comes the question of how do they figure that they are entitled to any placement or traffic, and as for relevancy and usefulness surly showing flight details for flight searches is much more useful than nested links.