blueturtle, you should drop this strawman thing and start making an argument instead of attacking the opponent.
You don't think my pages and pages of text constitute an argument, no? 98% of what I wrote is argument.
You have to point out a straw-man because well, it's a straw-man. You can't argue against a straw-man. Example:
"Apples are a fruit"
"No, cars are made of metal"
That's basically the replies I was getting.
No they aren't. They own the domain and the algos, but other companies own content. Google rehashes OTHER PEOLPLE'S CONTENT.
That line of reasoning hacks me off to be honest. It's so contradictory.
You're all furious because Google is extremely volatile just now, even being volatile towards what you consider to be good sites.(good=subjective)
Now bearing that in mind, do you think it makes sense to take a line of argument where you accuse Google of rehashing other people's content?
That is absurd. One minute you're moaning that you were booted off page 1, now you're moaning that Google is rehashing your content. Make up your mind, do you want to be on page 1 or do you want Google to stop violating your rights? How can you both be on page 1 and not have them display your content? It doesn't make any sense.
What makes these even more absurd is that you have a little thing called robots.txt which allows you to block googlebot. No one's forcing you to have your content listed on the front page of Google and get you thousands of visitors. You're completely free to keep all your content private.
It's just so silly on multiple levels. Google are sending you high quality traffic and now you're moaning about them re-hashing your content? wtf?
Do you want them to both send you traffic and pay YOU per click or something? That makes a lot of sense!
So, which is it. You clearly are unhappy with Google rehashing other people's content, so what should they do to make it right in your eyes?
It's called differently, but let's just say that this only works until a company controls a large portion of an industry. After which anti-monopoly laws kick in. In fact people go to jail for conspiracy to control the market.
"It's called differently"? Uh, you actually think I was saying "acquisitions" is called "synergy"? It's awfully difficult to get my point across if your reading comprehension isn't up to par. You need to understand context
I said
"If I own a trucking company I can transport whatever in the hell I want to transport. If I want to transport goods for my other 10 companies at a 90% discount and charge everyone else a premium of 1000% then guess what, I can do that because it's my company.
This is STANDARD BUSINESS PRACTICE. Companies buy up each other so they can do precisely this! It's called synergy. "
You don't actually know what synergy is, do you? You quite clearly think I mistakenly called the act of buying up new businesses 'synergy' instead of 'acquisitions'.
And your quote about monopoly is short and from a poor source. You need to look further into this, a monopoly doesn't have to control ENTIRE market singlehandedly, there's also oligopoly which is what we have (Google + Bing =95%). You should start reading more about US Anti-Trust laws:
Wiki United_States_antitrust_law
Does this sound like Google:
Price Fixing ("black box" adwords bidding, prices rigged up based on conversion data from Urchin / Google analytics)
Bid Rigging (above)
FYI.Standard Oil, a monopoly (which is now being put together agian, but it is offtopic) had 64% market share when it was broken up into smaller companies in 1911 (and had as high as 70% in 1906). Does this sound familiar?
I quoted wikipedia, investopedia and 2 other sites. Please try to read over what I write carefully, this is the 2nd time your reading comprehension has let you down. This is not a personal insult btw, it just makes it difficult for me to discuss this with you if you don't read what I say more carefully.
I went into great detail about what a monopoly would be with a smaller market share. I won't repeat myself. If you can't understand my reasoning then that's not my problem.
