<![CDATA[Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up.]]>Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up.

“Did you mean the company you deliberately did not search for?”

No.

No, we did not.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/cbd4bf06-57d0-4879-a562-7c81f8fd2768/being-able-to-pay-google-to-show-up-above-your-competitor-when-someone-searches-specifically-for-your-competitor-is-honestly-one-of-the-scummiest-little-growth-hacker-products-big-tech-ever-cooked-up.RSS for NodeFri, 12 Jun 2026 02:22:21 GMTTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:44:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:49:48 GMT]]>@Daojoan On google play store I remarked that I no longer look at the first result of a search. I begin with second one...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pouet.chapril.org/users/R1Rail/statuses/116679887339975390https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pouet.chapril.org/users/R1Rail/statuses/116679887339975390Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:49:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:57:46 GMT]]>@bettina @Daojoan Suggest an alternative instead of telling people not to do things.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://catcatnya.com/users/navi/statuses/116679682751497468https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://catcatnya.com/users/navi/statuses/116679682751497468Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:57:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:20:58 GMT]]>@Daojoan Stop using google, there are so many other alternatives, like Firefox, duckduckgo, mistral chat, open street maps, LibreOffice etc.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/bettina/statuses/116679302119312046https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/bettina/statuses/116679302119312046Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:20:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:06:19 GMT]]>@Daojoan totally agree, but it happens with other search engines as well. To a point that the proper name you are searching for ends up on the second page.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115852361262458898/statuses/116678772607411603https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115852361262458898/statuses/116678772607411603Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:06:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:55:01 GMT]]>@Daojoan
Big Tech wouldn't be Big Tech if commercial advertising didn't exist. It shouldn't, because it extracts value from society. (The only advertising allowed should be (unpaid) word of mouth and window dressing.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/elfburgerman/statuses/116678728218405367https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/elfburgerman/statuses/116678728218405367Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:55:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:09:20 GMT]]>@Daojoan that "functionality" is even more 2fun" on dedicated shopping platforms...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/TheOneDoc/statuses/116678548582292931https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/TheOneDoc/statuses/116678548582292931Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:09:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:20:10 GMT]]>@Daojoan I had to look it up... it was "google foo bar", freaked me out, I thought I was hacked. I didn't "play".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/clusterfcku/statuses/116677883370794937https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/clusterfcku/statuses/116677883370794937Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:20:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:06:51 GMT]]>@clusterfcku oh my god

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Daojoan/statuses/116677831015281360https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Daojoan/statuses/116677831015281360Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:06:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:57:58 GMT]]>@Daojoan that always bugged me. And scummy, second place: we notice you are doing lots of advanced python searches... little hatch opens in search bar with a monochrome terminal luring you into a limux-like CLI to do some competitive coding on your employer's time and see if you make it to a round of interviews at Google.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/clusterfcku/statuses/116677796038586560https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/clusterfcku/statuses/116677796038586560Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:57:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up. on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:53:49 GMT]]>@Daojoan I mean paid search rankings in general is evil

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/azonenberg/statuses/116677779771663585https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/azonenberg/statuses/116677779771663585Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:53:49 GMT