| ▲ | echelon a day 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 a day ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Google 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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