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Re:Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “asso... by jessaustin on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:58PM (#30860680)
Google love the extortion business model.

"Bid more than your competitor on AdWords for the literal name of your business or else they'll get the customers who intended to do business with you."

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Re:Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “asso... by tempnow987 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:15PM (#30861497)
Some users like being made aware of competitors to businesses. In new SAAS app areas, I'm sure the top 3 results will all be competitions to the business I'm looking for. Works reasonably well.

You would think something like this would increase competition between businesses (competitors surfaced immediately for users). Instead I guess this is seen by a bad thing - though it's not been clear to me recently that the FTC is looking out for users, they seem to have gone BIG into protecting businesses for some reason.

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