Comment by Buge 9 years ago They're paying money so that I don't see ads? That seems quite nice of them. 14 comments Buge Reply jlarocco 9 years ago Not sure if you're being facetious or not, but they're paying Google to not show ads for their competitors when a person searches for "uber". Pyxl101 9 years ago As far as I'm aware, that's not something that Google allows you to do. Is it?It seems more likely that:- Other services have decided not to bid on "Uber". It may be more useful to bid on general keywords like "taxi" or "black car", etc.- The price for that keyword is too high to be worth it- The performance of the ads is poor such that Google doesn't show them.- It's also possible that Lyft is bidding on the keyword "Uber", but only in certain geographical areas where they're trying to grow their presence. idunno246 9 years ago It's indirect. Lyft sets a max price of $0.05 for an ad placement, so uber has to set $0.06 to ensure that they get the ad and lyft doesnt. 7 replies → soared 9 years ago No it is not something Google allows. But for big brands they manually disallow paid results (see "Nike"). I don't see any ads on the uber results page. 3 replies →
jlarocco 9 years ago Not sure if you're being facetious or not, but they're paying Google to not show ads for their competitors when a person searches for "uber". Pyxl101 9 years ago As far as I'm aware, that's not something that Google allows you to do. Is it?It seems more likely that:- Other services have decided not to bid on "Uber". It may be more useful to bid on general keywords like "taxi" or "black car", etc.- The price for that keyword is too high to be worth it- The performance of the ads is poor such that Google doesn't show them.- It's also possible that Lyft is bidding on the keyword "Uber", but only in certain geographical areas where they're trying to grow their presence. idunno246 9 years ago It's indirect. Lyft sets a max price of $0.05 for an ad placement, so uber has to set $0.06 to ensure that they get the ad and lyft doesnt. 7 replies → soared 9 years ago No it is not something Google allows. But for big brands they manually disallow paid results (see "Nike"). I don't see any ads on the uber results page. 3 replies →
Pyxl101 9 years ago As far as I'm aware, that's not something that Google allows you to do. Is it?It seems more likely that:- Other services have decided not to bid on "Uber". It may be more useful to bid on general keywords like "taxi" or "black car", etc.- The price for that keyword is too high to be worth it- The performance of the ads is poor such that Google doesn't show them.- It's also possible that Lyft is bidding on the keyword "Uber", but only in certain geographical areas where they're trying to grow their presence. idunno246 9 years ago It's indirect. Lyft sets a max price of $0.05 for an ad placement, so uber has to set $0.06 to ensure that they get the ad and lyft doesnt. 7 replies → soared 9 years ago No it is not something Google allows. But for big brands they manually disallow paid results (see "Nike"). I don't see any ads on the uber results page. 3 replies →
idunno246 9 years ago It's indirect. Lyft sets a max price of $0.05 for an ad placement, so uber has to set $0.06 to ensure that they get the ad and lyft doesnt. 7 replies →
soared 9 years ago No it is not something Google allows. But for big brands they manually disallow paid results (see "Nike"). I don't see any ads on the uber results page. 3 replies →
Not sure if you're being facetious or not, but they're paying Google to not show ads for their competitors when a person searches for "uber".
As far as I'm aware, that's not something that Google allows you to do. Is it?
It seems more likely that:
- Other services have decided not to bid on "Uber". It may be more useful to bid on general keywords like "taxi" or "black car", etc.
- The price for that keyword is too high to be worth it
- The performance of the ads is poor such that Google doesn't show them.
- It's also possible that Lyft is bidding on the keyword "Uber", but only in certain geographical areas where they're trying to grow their presence.
It's indirect. Lyft sets a max price of $0.05 for an ad placement, so uber has to set $0.06 to ensure that they get the ad and lyft doesnt.
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No it is not something Google allows. But for big brands they manually disallow paid results (see "Nike"). I don't see any ads on the uber results page.
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