Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
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https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/
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https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/
ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How is this not fraud to the advertisers?
With Adsense I pay for people to search for X term and in turn show them an ad for my product.
But people are searching for Y, google is changing their search terms to include X so that I have to pay Google more and the client gets a shittier result.
Holy fuck.
That’s epic scale fraud.