If this can happen, is it possible that once mandatory developer verification comes into effect, all 3rd party apps will be uninstalled at first and require a re-install?
“Easy antitrust case” the same kind of easy as easy to punish google for actively throttling access to sites that dont pay them,or easy to punish them for actively supporting apartheid?
They’ve got a chokehold on the internet and of every political entity/corporation that uses the internet, excising this tumour is going to be anything but easy.
Supporting apartheid has nothing to do with antitrust. In fact, there is no law against it at all.
Google does not “throttle access to sites that don’t pay them.” Paying for an ad placement is as old as newspapers. There is no evidence that they additionally down rank sites that have no advertising account with them, and it wouldn’t make any business sense anyway because having nonpaying sites rank highly is what convinces a paying site to pay more to get top of page ad placement.
Anything to back up your claim about how having sites that don’t pay get pushed to the top is somehow better for google because it makes the ones already paying somehow pay more?
SEO doesn’t mean that the site pays Google. It’s exactly the opposite. SEO means gaming the Google ranking algorithm to appear higher in the organic rankings without paying Google. In the past, people would do this by creating link farms to game the page rank component.
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“Easy antitrust case” the same kind of easy as easy to punish google for actively throttling access to sites that dont pay them,or easy to punish them for actively supporting apartheid?
They’ve got a chokehold on the internet and of every political entity/corporation that uses the internet, excising this tumour is going to be anything but easy.
Supporting apartheid has nothing to do with antitrust. In fact, there is no law against it at all.
Google does not “throttle access to sites that don’t pay them.” Paying for an ad placement is as old as newspapers. There is no evidence that they additionally down rank sites that have no advertising account with them, and it wouldn’t make any business sense anyway because having nonpaying sites rank highly is what convinces a paying site to pay more to get top of page ad placement.
https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research
The paper this is based on
https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf
Anything to back up your claim about how having sites that don’t pay get pushed to the top is somehow better for google because it makes the ones already paying somehow pay more?
SEO doesn’t mean that the site pays Google. It’s exactly the opposite. SEO means gaming the Google ranking algorithm to appear higher in the organic rankings without paying Google. In the past, people would do this by creating link farms to game the page rank component.