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This ought to be illegal. Google is charging money on other people's brands. This wouldn't be a problem if there were ten popular search engines, or if portal
by echelon 1y ago
This ought to be illegal.
Google is charging money on other people's brands.
This wouldn't be a problem if there were ten popular search engines, or if portals were still popular and there were ten popular portals.
But what Google has done is gross monopolistic misconduct.
They've "removed the URL bar" and turned it into a search bar. They've put their browser on all devices and made it the default. They've made Google search the default. They've destroyed the ad blocker.
Now, when I search for a brand, I see an ad that looks like an official result in first place.
iPhone -> paid ad
Nike -> paid ad
Midjourney -> paid ad
These are companies' hard earned brands, and yet Google is collecting rent on them.
Google is taxing the entire internet. This ought to be illegal.
Google deserves to be broken up.
- charcircuit 1y agoGoogle is not the internet and this behavior is not exclusive to Google. For example TikTok does the same thing. They have search ads when you search for brands on their platform. The TikTok app never had a url bar, TikTok provides search for TikTok, and it never had an ad blocker. Same thing for Amazon, same thing for X, etc.
- teddyh 1y ago> Google is not the internet No, but they are, with ever increasing accuracy, the web.
- echelon 1y agoYou don't search TikTok to buy something from BestBuy.com You use Chrome and Google, and both are interfering with that process. They're sticking themselves in the middle of that transaction and neither you nor Best Buy want them there.
- charcircuit 1y agoWhy not? I guarantee you people search "bestbuy tv" or "bestbuy keyboard" on TikTok. Also don't forget about the BestBuy app, there's an option for consumers to directly visit them without doing so through another app.