Every Google result now looks like an ad

Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by toohotatopic on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:36PM (#22111886)

Does this create an opportunity for 'number one' sites to band together and create a competing search engine?

Would it be possible to fund a search engine startup by selling shares to all of those sites who now have to pay to stay at the top? In the long run, it should be cheaper to fund a competitor.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by JohnFen on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @06:24PM (#22112874)

I'm helping this effort along -- all of my sites specifically exclude Google's spiders, but allow those of other search engines.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by lonelappde on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:15PM (#22112258)

I'm not sure regulators would look kindly on an pan-industry cartel explicitly designed to suppress smaller business from appearing in the marketplace.

That's a pure antitrust play.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by jackcosgrove on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:22PM (#22113301)

HERE is an industry consortium created to offer an alternative map service.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by Swalden123 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:37PM (#22112481)

That sounds like Google to me.

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