foxidrive
Retired Admin
It seems that around the world, governments and businesses and people expect a search engine to give results that have no weighting based upon adverts - but the search engine makes their money based on adverts.
Google injects adverts - nobody has a problem with this - and Google makes their most profitable adverts more prominent.
This is what businesses do everywhere - they change their business strategies to maximise their profits.
Ummm.... isn't that the point of a business?
The Competition Commission of India has opened an investigation into Google to decide whether the company unfairly prioritized search results to its own services. Google could face a fine of up to $1.4 billion — 10% of its net income in 2014. A number of other internet companies, including Facebook and FlipKart, responded to queries from the CCI by confirming that Google does this. "The CCI's report accuses Google of displaying its own content and services more prominently in search results than other sources that have higher hit rates. It also states that sponsored links shown in search results are dependent on the amount of advertising funds Google receives from its clients. Ecommerce portal Flipkart noted that it found search results to have a direct correlation with the amount of money it spent on advertising with Google."
Google injects adverts - nobody has a problem with this - and Google makes their most profitable adverts more prominent.
This is what businesses do everywhere - they change their business strategies to maximise their profits.
Ummm.... isn't that the point of a business?
The Competition Commission of India has opened an investigation into Google to decide whether the company unfairly prioritized search results to its own services. Google could face a fine of up to $1.4 billion — 10% of its net income in 2014. A number of other internet companies, including Facebook and FlipKart, responded to queries from the CCI by confirming that Google does this. "The CCI's report accuses Google of displaying its own content and services more prominently in search results than other sources that have higher hit rates. It also states that sponsored links shown in search results are dependent on the amount of advertising funds Google receives from its clients. Ecommerce portal Flipkart noted that it found search results to have a direct correlation with the amount of money it spent on advertising with Google."
