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Comment by ThunderSizzle

9 hours ago

Right, but that's because Google permits that. OP is saying Google should simply stop permitting advertising over the real answer.

Why would Google give themselves less money?

  • There's a lot of reasons, but it's probably how Google makes most of their money - brand names end up being high value ad targets - at least 6+ years ago when I worked in that sphere of things (ecommerce, primarily). It's legit extortion.

    I guess that's why - because extortion is immoral. Eventually, those paying the protection fees will eventually find someone better to pay or will stop paying when the protection doesn't show up.

  • Let me repeat myself

      >>>> When making more money requires degrading the product you know we've fucked up

  • It should be illegal to mislead the users like this. The search terms weren't generic and didn't match anything.