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Any retail store. Like Costco and Walmart. They can break an entire company by just buying from a competitor.
by jedberg 3y ago
Any retail store. Like Costco and Walmart. They can break an entire company by just buying from a competitor.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoThere is a business relationship between Walmart/Costco and the product or a competitor of the product. In the Google News case, there is no business relation with any news site (Alphabet ads might have a relation with the news site, but that is not Google News).
- lupire 3y agoGoogle News is a customer who walks into Walmart consumes the free samples and tells people about them. Walmart is free to ban Google from the premises (robots.txt) or to negotiate an exchange (monetization agreement).
- jacobgkau 3y agoI think they key is that in your example, Cosco/Walmart was "buying" from the company and is now "buying" from a competitor. Google's typically not "buying" from anyone when they choose who to list on their pages (only "selling" exposure, in cases of paid advertising).