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  • You make a good point, but think of it this way. Someone Googles “tips on buying a new laptop”. Companies enrolled with the Google program bump up their prices for that user. But what about websites not enrolled in the program? Their prices stay lower, so if the person buying the laptop ships around even a little bit, they will likely buy from one of the non-affiliated sites.

    It only works if the whole marketplace is under the system. Amazon is a shopping experience tailored to keep people inside their system, so it works with them. You aren’t going to take the time to price match across multiple websites for a pair of socks. I think it is a lot harder to manipulate prices with big-ticket items, where people will put in the effort to shop around.


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    16 days ago

    I agree with the broad premise that your information has value, but I wouldn’t worry about Google increasing prices just for you. Companies still control their own websites and they aren’t going to allow another company to change what they change directly.

    What Google sells is the ability for a company to get their website in front of your eyes. They sell the top spaces in your search results. A company who doesn’t pay Google gets pushed to page two.vor three. Now in a sense that increases your prices because the cost of the companies increased ad budgets is passed on to you.