How Google Uses Their Search Engine to Hijack Traffic from Web-based Bookstores
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Learn how Google uses its dominance in search to hijack traffic to websites by placing content it has aggregated from OTHER websites AHEAD of organic search engine results to sell its OWN products and services. This practice is hurting all but the most massive websites and making the World Wide Web a much less rich place. More on this topic of selling books on the web.
You can help by visiting independent websites and patronizing them. Tell others about the sites that you like and help promote them in the manner that makes the most sense to you. Google can not be the only way websites are discovered -- any more than Amazon can be on the only place people look for things to buy.
Learn how Google uses its dominance in search to hijack traffic to websites by placing content it has aggregated from OTHER websites AHEAD of organic search engine results to sell its OWN products and services. This practice is hurting all but the most massive websites and making the World Wide Web a much less rich place. More on this topic of selling books on the web.
You can help by visiting independent websites and patronizing them. Tell others about the sites that you like and help promote them in the manner that makes the most sense to you. Google can not be the only way websites are discovered -- any more than Amazon can be on the only place people look for things to buy.
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