You're free to advertise through other means. Search isn't the only way to be seen. Sadly you'd be better off firing your highly paid SEO staff and paying Google directly for better search results. Sorry SEO is dead occupation, I guess?
This has become the canonical group-think response on Slashdot any time a tech company is accused of doing anything wrong. "Vote with your feet and quit complaining."
But there is another way to look at this. Google offers free search. They have achieved monopoly status in the search market by providing free search for many years. On the other side of this process, if you want to be in business, you have to show up on google. When Google stacks a large number of paid ads in front of your company search resul
>"maybe a deeper analysis is warranted instead of falling back to simplistic Ayn Rand libertarianism. Big Tech is not anyone's friend."
A good posting to which I agree with most everything you said. But I will clarify that libertarianism still depends on the government to maintain a fair playing field in capitalism to prevent and control the inevitable formation of actual and near monopolies. Few l/Libertarians support dismantling anti-trust laws, they are aware that for competition to work, there needs to be competition.
Forced? (Score:1)
You're free to advertise through other means. Search isn't the only way to be seen.
Sadly you'd be better off firing your highly paid SEO staff and paying Google directly for better search results.
Sorry SEO is dead occupation, I guess?
Re: (Score:5, Interesting)
This has become the canonical group-think response on Slashdot any time a tech company is accused of doing anything wrong. "Vote with your feet and quit complaining."
But there is another way to look at this. Google offers free search. They have achieved monopoly status in the search market by providing free search for many years. On the other side of this process, if you want to be in business, you have to show up on google. When Google stacks a large number of paid ads in front of your company search resul
Re:Forced? (Score:2)
>"maybe a deeper analysis is warranted instead of falling back to simplistic Ayn Rand libertarianism. Big Tech is not anyone's friend."
A good posting to which I agree with most everything you said. But I will clarify that libertarianism still depends on the government to maintain a fair playing field in capitalism to prevent and control the inevitable formation of actual and near monopolies. Few l/Libertarians support dismantling anti-trust laws, they are aware that for competition to work, there needs to be competition.