News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites. Parent comment

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by akersten on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:23PM (#22609121)
> Can’t both practices be wrong? and an abuse of their market position?

Sure. But my point is that no one is railing Kroger for putting their cheap pasta above the DeCecco. So it's hypocritical to call out tech companies for doing what physical retailers have been doing for ages.

If we're not mad about the pasta, we shouldn't be mad about Flickr being #2 on the search for "photos". And if we are mad about Google Photos being #1, why aren't we mad about the pasta?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by d2wa on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:31PM (#22609225)
I’m mad about the pasta too. Price gouging is usually regulated internationally, though. E.g. groceries in India are labeled with a maximum retail price set by the manufacturer to avoid problems like this.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by mthoms on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:23PM (#22611224)
Your analogy is flawed.

Google's value proposition is to provide the most useful/accurate results for your query. Period. That's Google search's "raison d'etre".

Kroger makes no such (equivalent) claim.

[ Parent | on HN ]