That’s not abstract thinking.
Abstract thinking is seeing the similarity between the psychology of making people click that ad and the psychology of getting someone to kill someone else.
Could also say getting someone to eat a god damn steak instead of killing someone. That’s what ABSTRACT means.
It’s about the act of manipulation, not the result of it.
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But thats not necessarily a monopoly. Thats just making it inconvenient. It would be a monopoly if they didn’t allow them to pop up at all.
I will refer back to my lazy sheep statement.
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hehe, as usual 
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That stinks, Lulu 
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On the flip side… Work computer broke down = day off?
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Well, in my RL trade, Google doesn’t haves a monopoly on the organic search engine traffic reaching our website: there’s a whole 1.3% of users who come after finding us through Bing. 
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*total monopoly
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Or grab a pen and start remembering how to write letters by hand. :<
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Hah don’t get my hopes up! It’s already restarting normally. 
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Write letters by… Hand??? That’s silly talk!
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Awww, fingers crossed!!
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By the way, I just made a small change to my signature, since the font haves trouble displaying “i” in smaller sizes. Now the “i” should not look like “l”, at least on PC.
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Please pardon me. I am not a trained debater, nor am I versed in abstract thinking.
However…
If Ed’s department store pays Google for advertising, and
Jeff’s department store pays Google for advertising, and
Fred’s department store pays Google for advertising.
Why is it Google’s fault that Ned’s department store didn’t and gets buried behind 3 pages of ads?
I think at this point, we’ll just need to agree to disagree.
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Looks good, it’s a nice size too. 
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It doesn’t get buried behind 3 pages of ads.
The entire EU ruling is about how Google abused their search engine monopoly to place their price comparison feature above those of independent competitor price comparison websites, giving Google’s own product a vastly unfair advantage.
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When those 3 pay Google for ad traffic, that’s what they get. Ads. Not special treatment.
But if those 3 end up on page 1 of the search results whereas the person that didn’t pay ends up on page 4, then it’s no longer ads, it’s an extortion scheme.
Search results aren’t ads.
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So…maybe the independent competitor price comparison websites should make their own search engines…???
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What would that accomplish?
Google is using their market dominance to unfairly intrude into another market. Not with a superior product, but with a monopoly in a unrelated market.
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They’re doing just the same thing that Amazon is doing. Stand up to them and you’ll end up with things like “buy” buttons disappearing from your Amazon products, or Amazon starts producing and selling goods that are equal to yours simply because your stuff sells so good and Amazon wants the market for itself
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What is the special treatment they are receiving? There must be a variable here that I’m just not gleaning…
If I’m selling widgets and I pay Google to advertise my widgets. I would expect that my Random brand™ Widgets get displayed. That doesn’t sound like special treatment to me. I am paying for that.
If Linus is selling widgets and doesn’t pay Google for that, I would still expect Random brand™ Widgets to get displayed over Linus brand™ Widgets.
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