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Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK — When asked about Google, Bryan Clayton voices a familiar lament among small business owners. “You keep getting squeezed further and further down the search results page,” says Clayton, CEO of GreenPal, a company that operates an app to help homeowners find lawn care. “As a startup, you don’t have a million-dollar advertising budget.” The Justice Department sued Google on Oct. 20 for anticompetitive behavior, saying the company’s dominance in online search and… Source link

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Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK (AP) — Monopoly or not, small business owners’ biggest complaint about Google is that its advertising policies favor companies with big marketing budgets. Companies covet the top spots in Google search results _ the first page of rankings, and the top of subsequent pages. But if too many companies are interested, the cost of one of these spots can jump out of reach for a small business, just like the price for… Source link

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Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK (AP) — Monopoly or not, small business owners’ biggest complaint about Google is that its advertising policies favor companies with big marketing budgets. Companies covet the top spots in Google search results _ the first page of rankings, and the top of subsequent pages. But if too many companies are interested, the cost of one of these spots can jump out of reach for a small business, just like the price for… Source link

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Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK (AP) — Monopoly or not, small business owners’ biggest complaint about Google is that its advertising policies favor companies with big marketing budgets. Companies covet the top spots in Google search results _ the first page of rankings, and the top of subsequent pages. But if too many companies are interested, the cost of one of these spots can jump out of reach for a small business, just like the price for… Source link

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What Biden means for Big Tech—and Google in particular

Throughout his campaign to win the White House, President-elect Joe Biden has been relatively quiet about the technology industry.  In a revealing January 2020 interview with the New York Times editorial board, Biden said that he wanted to revoke Section 230; suggested that he disagreed with how friendly the Obama administration became with Silicon Valley; and referred to tech executives as “little creeps” who displayed an “overwhelming arrogance.” But internet companies have also… Source link

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France’s OVH partners with Google for European cloud computing push

FILE PHOTO: Visitors stand at the French web-hosting and server provider OVH Group new headquarters in Paris, France, October 17, 2018. Picture taken October 17, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau PARIS (Reuters) – French technology firm OVH said on Tuesday it is partnering with Google to build up its capacities in cloud computing, leaning on the U.S. giant’s technology to speed up a push towards developing a European contender in the area. Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google dominate the… Source link

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Google’s Nest Audio may or may not have a home theater trick up its sleeves

In our review of Google’s $99 Nest Audio speaker, we wrote that it’s “unfortunate that you can’t use two Nest Audio speakers paired with a Chromecast for home theater audio, like you can do with a couple of Amazon Echo speakers and a Fire TV.” But it appears that Google originally intended to offer just such a feature — and we’re wondering if the company might still introduce it in the next few months. As 9to5Google points out, Google seemingly forgot to remove a rather… Source link

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