Google Search, Adsense/Analytics, Android and Chrome should be broken up.
It’s feeding the same evil
US accuses Google of illegal methods to push up ad prices
Submitted 1 year ago by bathalumang_peppa@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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ink@r.nf 1 year ago
Jessvj93@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cool story, ngl I think Jedi Blue is a blacklisted phrase on Reddit, it’s not talked about at all and discussion is suppressed. I thought the case went away, but I think it got bundled into the bigger antitrust case. Fuck Google
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
More interesting is what came out during the deposition: Google straight up changes your search terms to give you results that trigger paid advertisements. Eg if you search for “children’s shirts” it will swap for " shirts" and show you ads for that brand.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Does it swap search terms just for the portion that returns the ad or for the search as well? If it’s just the ad that doesn’t seem very problematic. If it’s for the search as well, I don’t see how that would benefit Google. They wouldn’t be able to consider a search result click a successful conversion if it wasn’t an actual advertisement.
Maestro@kbin.social 1 year ago
If the ads were targeted to people searching for [brandname] then that would be straight up illegal. Companies woyld have a slam dunk case in court.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s the thing though, proving it would be next to impossible.