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> anybody who makes a living on the streets of the internet knows that Google is the most dangerous and rapacious company on the net.

I make a living on the streets of the internet, and could not disagree more with your conclusion.

You don't speak for everyone, because you certainly don't speak for me.

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I'll say that you can have good times for a while with the "Big G" but there will come a day when they need to post better numbers for their investors and they decide the little bit of margin from their ecosystem belongs to them.

Back in the 1990's, venture capitalists wouldn't fund any company that competed with Microsoft. For quite a long time, there's been no funding for companies that compete with Google. Thus, there's a "lost generation" of companies that have never gotten off the ground since to Google's dominance of the web landscape.

You are clearly in a minority though. I bet that at least 80% of internet marketers hate Google.

Have you used adwords? I have. And it is pretty transparent about almost everything that should be available to the advertiser. They certanly have the website base and actively moniter ads for inapprpiate content, increasing overall prosperity of the network. Although it could get them more money, they play for long term and keep the standard high. They need to make money like every other company.

Not really but a friend of mine was scammed out of $40k legit AdSense earnings.

As for the quality of AdWords - I have not forgotten about the 500 million dollar fine Google received for pharmacy ads.

> Not really but a friend of mine was scammed out of $40k legit AdSense earnings.

Can you give more details? Are you/he suggesting Google scammed him? Any reason/evidence to believe so?

> As for the quality of AdWords - I have not forgotten about the 500 million dollar fine Google received for pharmacy ads.

Adwords is better when compared to competitors. This does not mean it is perfect. Automation can do only so much.

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