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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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Boozilla@lemmy.world
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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.

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Taleya@aussie.zone
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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’

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