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Anti-monopoly laws exist for a reason. Splitting Google (and other IT monopolies) is the only remedy their monopolistic behaviour.
This is worse than monopolistic behavior. Show me where old school AT&T acted like this.
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This is not what you want to hear, but if you pay Google you can get very quick support. The Google One product which includes cloud space and other features includes phone support for Google products. Turns out, when you use free services, you don't get support, but when you pay them even just like ~$1/mo (I think my Google One for more photo space in the cloud is $15/yr?) they'll pick up the phone and answer anythi…
I have Google One as well and while the support is quick, I don't have a good impression of their effectiveness when I asked a few basic questions (e.g. while GPhotos uses my overall quota, is its content accessible from GDrive)
But that's true of nearly all consumer level support in all industries. Businesses pay big dollars for consultants and service level agreements for access to the higher level folks.
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>increase the word count, add more photos It seems that thanks to this policy of Google most cooking/recipe sites are full of fluff. Not always 'more content' means the content.
Yes! It would be easier to write 500 word blurbs than a meaningful 50 words. I despise recipe sites for this reason. So much "content" gets in the way of the actual content. The recipes in my favorite cookbook are around 100 words on average, yet if they were published online, I doubt they would rank.
I wonder if the same thing would work for you: organize your site with more content per page. You could add value with lists organized by some principle, or just borrow Amazon's catalog tree.
For that matter, would the same notion work for recipe sites? In addition to the main recipe per page, add several other related dishes -- compatible side dishes, similar main dishes, cocktails, etc. Reduce the blurb to please readers, but still produce content.
I'm far from an expert in SEO so I apologize if I'm telling you something you already know (or already know doesn't work). I'm just spitballing.
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Being in a more competitive industry generally reduces margins but increases the size of the market. Vertically integrated companies lose to aggressively competitive non-integrated competitors when they exist (and a monopolist is proscribed from buying them all up), because the existence of that competition means they can't be abusive or collect monopoly rents. Vertically integrated monopolies are sticky because you…
I'll give an example of a Canadian vertically integrated monopoly: BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises). BCE grew out of the incumbent phone company (Bell) in most of Ontario and Quebec. Over the years it has used the massive profits from telecom to extends its reach into other sectors of the economy. Over the past 10-15 years, it has made quite a few acquisition of various content producers. Most notably to me was the purc…
But, I'd be surprised if many science-minded people from Gen-X or later, were still watching cable in large numbers. Same for the local 6:00 news for that matter.
I despise Bell as much as the next Canadian, but this shift is likely more due to the increased competition (internet, wireless phones) for mindshare.
>Sadly, our phone and TV bills don't go down in price despite us getting less new content
I was thinking about this recently. Every other area of technology gets cheaper and cheaper (relative to their capabilities) but internet keeps getting more expensive. At least in Canada.
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It's not just IPs that have reputation scores but IP ranges and AS entities. Residential IP ranges are often dinged by default because of the risk of infected home PCs sending spam.
There absolutely is a reputation associated with individual addresses and ranges of addresses. And that reputation can be derived from numerous legitimate means (honeypot activity, spam, reverse dns info), but whatever these folks are doing regarding "proxy/vpn detection" is indistinguishable from snake oil.
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>they require you to transfer your domain to GoDaddy Not according to this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-your-own-doma...
But isn't that product ("Outlook Premium") closed off to new subscribers since 2017? ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/outlook-com-premi... ) I also had a similar experience to the parent poster, i.e. MS support required transferring the domain to godaddy before one could use it for Outlook if using a consumer-focused O365 plan.
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For this reason and spam calls, I have a free Google Voice number that I use for all services. I never give my cell #...
How do you log into Google Voice?
It can be set up to forward inbound texts to another number, or you can see them via the app.
I haven't had the "blocked" issues others have, and.. in the case of the IRS, I do have someone who files my paperwork for me.
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This. Google has had it in for affiliate sites for as long as I can remember, and they specifically dislike thin content. While the site has ~250 words of value editorial at the top of the pages I've looked at, the descriptions of the products themselves are extremely thin (~30-50 words), and would likely fall foul of this Google policy: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline... "Pages of produc…
Is this the reason why top recipe results always contain the poster's entire life story before they ever show a list of ingredients?
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Do you have 2FA enabled? I suspect that if you have either an authenticator app or a security key, it will use that instead of random heuristics. (This isn't a defense of Google's behavior, just a comment on things that are actually within the end user's control.)
I tried to setup 2FA, Google would not let me setup an authenticator app without first giving Google a phone number.
This doesn't work for services that send SMS 2FA codes and the like from a shortcode (as Twilio does not support receiving those), but Google appears to send from a longcode, so it works there.