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Re:Google Uses Its Search Engine to Hawk Its Products by kyleschiller on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:19PM (#13438021) 

  While Google pays itself for the ads, the strategy does have a cost: Google forgoes potential revenue from ads it displaces.
I'm worried about the Google monopoly, but this in particular feels pretty reasonable to me. I don't see how it's disanalogous to a tv network buying ads on it's own channel.
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Re:Google Uses Its Search Engine to Hawk Its Products by mutatio on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:43PM (#13438298)
I wonder what the effect is on AdWords bids for keywords Google is targeting. Does the average bid cost increase, effectively negating the cost of Google advertising on Google? (Thus due to economics, the ads become free, or reduced in cost).
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