tedster
msg:4381677 | 4:33 pm on Oct 31, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Most likely it's related to this news from last March - discussed then in our Google Business Issues forum:
Report: Google Acquires UK Price Comparison Website For $61.5 million [webmasterworld.com]
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superclown2
msg:4381687 | 4:47 pm on Oct 31, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I've heard that this has already caused a 20% increase in CPCs. The writing is on the wall for price comparison sites. I wonder how many of them realise that their Adwords spend is feeding the monster which will eventually destroy them?
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shazam
msg:4381741 | 6:33 pm on Oct 31, 2011 (gmt 0) |
It's pretty obvious why google started waging war on affiliates a while back. They want to be the one and only affiliate in these highly profitable niches.
I can't think of any more obvious anti-trust violation. Control the main source of web traffic, and buy up all the profitable niches to directly profit from this traffic. (finance-travel etc..)
Regulators are somehow completely blind ($$$$) when it comes to google.
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