Service drains competitor's Adwords budget

Re:Service drains competitor's Adwords budget by bsaul on Saturday July 26, 2014 @04:48AM (#8089247)

People complain a lot about Google here, but some people working in the business for a while will remember the miva ad network. Boy was that network ugly. Sometimes during the month you would see a bump of traffic of 100x magnitude on all customers and of course no conversion at all. We used to say "looks like miva needs some cash this month".

Google adwords/adsense didn't win by being a monopoly, they won because they were simply the best. Then they became a monopoly.

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Re:Service drains competitor's Adwords budget by spacemanmatt on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:19AM (#8089466)

This. Exactly. Google enjoys a natural monopoly (or in my view, a non-monopoly) in search because they continue to earn the most business there, not because they have eliminated viable alternatives.

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Re:Service drains competitor's Adwords budget by TeMPOraL on Saturday July 26, 2014 @04:55PM (#8090768)

Same with webmail. And maps. And other things. They just provide services that work and are optimized for usability, not for trying to upsell you something. I believe they deserve that natural monopoly for doing what they are (as long as they continue this course).

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Re:Service drains competitor's Adwords budget by throwawayads on Saturday July 26, 2014 @12:45PM (#8090112)

Yes - but now they do a lot of the classic "use a good product in one to gain an advantage in another" tricks - https://medium.com/@ad_insider/googles-latest-monopoly-trick...

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