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his point is that his business isn't ranked as high on google as he thinks it should be.

• bsenftner 12y ago
  His point is that none of the businesses in his industry can get a listing within their industry. His point is that intermediate "marketplaces" inject themselves into an industry and then control consumer access to that industry's products. These "marketplaces" are not actually in these industries - they are in the internet business aggregate industry, and serve the consumers very poorly, because after all the consumer is NOT their customer, their customer is their investors.
  • Kalium 12y ago
    What he utterly ignores is that to the consumer, these intermediaries are often far more valuable than any individual business in the industry is. This is why I use Orbitz or Hipmunk to find flights, rather than going directly to United or Southwest.
    • pessimizer 12y ago
      >these intermediaries are often far more valuable than any individual business in the industry is. Or they can be utter shit aggregators and middlemen, which they mostly are, and which Google spends most/all of its time on trying to defeat their SEO to get to better content. I'm pretty sure that Google understands his problem and would prefer that his site come up; what I'm not sure about is why you seem to think a problem exists if every time you search for a product, the first page is split between Best Buy, Amazon, and GetElectronicsFastAndCheap.com, and the manufacturer is relegated to the second page. I think that Google is aware of this and trying to solve it, I just think that it's a problem that isn't possible to solve algorithmically. It is quickly leading to the end of search engine usefulness as a facilitator of discovery rather than of confirmation.
  • jccalhoun 12y ago
    So his point is that his business isn't ranked as high on google as he thinks it should be?