incrediBILL - 7:09 pm on Oct 19, 2012 (gmt 0)

Google have been systematically and knowingly destroying many legitimate businesses with each algo update and with each takeover. They have been celebrating these for years. Isn't this tacky?

Google simply changes their software to alter the results and only 10 can be at the top. With every change some profit, some do not. Many legitimate businesses also profit with these changes where those previously gaming the system no longer can function.

Collateral damage happens, it happened to me, oh boo hoo. You get up, dust yourself off and move on to either work within the shifting paradigm or find something new to do.

I don't care if their share prices fall out of the stratosphere -- burn baby burn

It's the little investors that are getting hurt the most when stock goes down, not the big players who cash out with a million or two less.

Hurting small businesses is bad but hurting small investors is OK?

Nice.