Also you can think of it as a GIGANTIC Yellow Pages!
I have no problem with their placement algorithms ~ and have used them to my advantage from time to time.
Let a thousand flowers bloom paid for by other people!
You were searching for the band and instead were directed to automobiles?
I think the author missed the point, but can’t tell if they missed it on purpose, by accident, or actually don’t believe the point has any merit.
It’s not that Google provides results for a search. It’s that google provides results for shopping items that take you to places to buy things for which google gets paid.
The user might think google knows you want the cheapest prices, or places close to your home, or places with cheap shipping; but google’s ranking of results puts stores/websites which make google money higher than other web sites that might sell the product more cheaply.
Now, I’m not saying the point is worth being investigated over, or that google doesn’t have the absolute right to freely provide ANY type of results they want to provide — after all, we freely choose to use google, and if we don’t like the results we can choose another search engine. Google at least will allow you to search for other search engines.
But the point being made isn’t as assinine as the article suggests.
I did a search at Google today for âcarsâ and was shocked. Rather than list links allowing me to search for âcarsâ on Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Voila, Naver and Yandex, Google instead favored its own search results. Iâm glad the EU will be investigating whether this favoritism violates anti-trust laws. Consider the evidence. Hereâs a search on Google for cars:As you can clearly see, none of the competing search engines Iâve named are listed in the top results. Rather than show them, Google instead shows pages about cars that it has collected across the web using its own technology.Googleâs behavior...