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Re: How to hide Ryanair

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How exactly would deoptimizing Ryanair hurt them financially? Do Ryanair customers search Google for anything but "Ryanair" when they want to get to ryanair.com?

Ryanair have such a well known airline brand that it's unlikely they are relying on organic search results.

Re: How to hide Ryanair

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post #10
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

well a google of "cheap flight dublin london" Ryanair comes up third. Which implies they must get a fair amount of traffic from search engines

3rd place gets you, what 10% of the people who search for it?

That is a fair point. I would guess it it 10% more of the clicks than 11th place though

Re: How to hide Ryanair

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post #10
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well a google of "cheap flight dublin london" Ryanair comes up third. Which implies they must get a fair amount of traffic from search engines

3rd place gets you, what 10% of the people who search for it?

Depends what the first 2 results are.

fwiw they are 2nd on duckduckgo for grandparents search, and the first airline.

Re: How to hide Ryanair

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Why do companies even have this clause in their T&C? What's the benefit?

Too many lawyers who want to look useful.

I actually remember my boss telling me to put bullshit clauses in contract drafts so that those people have something to chew at and refrain from messing with the actual matter of the contract.

Re: How to hide Ryanair

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post #10
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well a google of "cheap flight dublin london" Ryanair comes up third. Which implies they must get a fair amount of traffic from search engines

3rd place gets you, what 10% of the people who search for it?

That can be quite a number, depending on how many actually search for it.

Re: How to hide Ryanair

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post #6

How exactly would deoptimizing Ryanair hurt them financially? Do Ryanair customers search Google for anything but "Ryanair" when they want to get to ryanair.com?

If Google obeyed their T&Cs to the letter and didn’t list them at all that’d hurt them.

Re: How to hide Ryanair

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post #11
post #6

How exactly would deoptimizing Ryanair hurt them financially? Do Ryanair customers search Google for anything but "Ryanair" when they want to get to ryanair.com?

Ryanair have such a well known airline brand that it's unlikely they are relying on organic search results.

A lot of non-tech people don't type any URL, they just type "Ryanair" in Google and click on the first link.
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