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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says (www.businessinsider.com)
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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says::Google shells out billions to be the default search engine on Apple's smartphones and on web browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, the DOJ said.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my case it's trying to sell me the fucking thing i explicitly excluded from results with a boolean

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can imagine some mid-level idiot with an MBA coming up with that one in a staff meeting. "I know how we increase revenue, guys: the old reverse psychology!"

Bastard probably got a bonus for it.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Not even that smart. It's just shitty, shitty SEO

'Stick ads for x on anything that mentions x, xa, xy and related terms. Don't pay attention to exclusions'