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Re: Google bans yet another small business

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg »

Google and Microsoft banned this small business. Are we meant to believe they are coordinating to step on the little guy? Despite the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that do advertise successfully on these search engines? Somehow this does not seem likely to me. I suspect there is some other relevant factor that you are not telling us.

Re: Google bans yet another small business

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Post by m-p-3 »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #3

Google and Microsoft banned this small business. Are we meant to believe they are coordinating to step on the little guy? Despite the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that do advertise successfully on these search engines? Somehow this does not seem likely to me. I suspect there is some other relevant factor that you are not telling us.

It wouldn't be unheard of a small business being virtually sentenced to death because the opaque byzantine maze of unwritten rules got triggered by some keywords or automated systems.

I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt here.

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Post by jazzyjackson »

> We need ads. Otherwise, nobody will ever know anything about us. This is how the internet works: you either work for years to get a little organic traffic or you just pay to those giants so they share it with you.

I don’t like the ad model of the internet (adbusters subscriber here) but this has me very sympathetic. Where do you go to get attention? Google and Facebook have made sure all eyes are on them, so if you want eyeballs, you must pay.

Re: Google bans yet another small business

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Post by LegitShady »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #3

Google and Microsoft banned this small business. Are we meant to believe they are coordinating to step on the little guy? Despite the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that do advertise successfully on these search engines? Somehow this does not seem likely to me. I suspect there is some other relevant factor that you are not telling us.

I can't find it now but I'm 100% sure I heard during congressional testimoney that some social media and other tech companies have their 'trust and safety' (or whatever their company calls it) share information with other companies. It's possible that getting banned by google can lead to getting banned by microsoft if microsoft is doing some kind of trust score and being banned by another company lowers that trust score.

I can't find the social media 'trust and safety' info sharing thing now it might have been zuckerberg congressional testimony (for whatever that's worth)

Re: Google bans yet another small business

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Post by josefx »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #3

Google and Microsoft banned this small business. Are we meant to believe they are coordinating to step on the little guy? Despite the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that do advertise successfully on these search engines? Somehow this does not seem likely to me. I suspect there is some other relevant factor that you are not telling us.

> Despite the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that do advertise successfully on these search engines?

In other words: The existence of hundreds of thousands of happy white people make it unlikely that a black guy could get targeted by two racists. Clearly cop A who allegedly broke his right leg and cop B who allegedly broke his left leg are to be found not guilty asap so they wont have to miss their biweekly KKK meetup. /s

The most hilarious part about the comment is the implication that the greats of silicon valley haven't been repeatedly caught in various shady backroom dealings meant to enrich themselves at the cost of literally everyone else on the planet.

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