[harry8]

The condescension is unnecessary and against the guidelines around here.

Did the phone company put your calls through to your competitor if you paid them to do that or would they be in big trouble for doing so. It's not "advertising" it's getting between you and your customers and tolling the infrastructure to the highest bidder.

The phone company was regulated very heavily as a utility just like google isn't.

[bagacrap]

Google isn't redirecting DNS lookups. Google is much closer to the yellow pages, which if you hadn't noticed is full of both paid and unpaid content.

[harry8]

Yellow pages is regulated and static - the same for everyone.

Perhaps this is the answer for how to treat google? Regulate them heavily and ensure they show the same thing to everyone?

Interesting suggestion you're making.

[milemi]

How are yellow pages regulated?

[harry8]

Ever tried to put in an ad for your competitor with your phone number? Its telecoms, it's regulated.

[milemi]

Government regulates some parts of telecom business, a lot of it it doesn’t. I couldn’t find any regulations pertaining to yellow pages, that’s why I was asking. I doubt there are any.

Please provide some evidence of Google systematically violating its policy here https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6020955?hl=en

[harry8]

I could literally not care less about google's policy, as enforced by google. It is of zero relevance nor significance to anything at all.

Google have deliberately made ads much harder to distinguish from results. They have done so for money and it has been successful. No policy of theirs changes this, excuses this nor makes it go away nor makes it less relevant. I care as much about google's "policy" on google's clear misbehaviour as I do about mafia citing their "code" in a criminal trial. You should try assuming people lie for money when there are no consequences until shown to be otherwise.

Try all the standard, accepted and common google ad techniques on yellow pages ads and see how far you get. I'm betting on that being nowhere and usually because it is illegal.

[milemi]

Brave edgelords exposing Google mafia for what it is can’t take a little condescension. Heroes just aren’t what they used to be.

Despite my best efforts I can’t follow your overstretched analogy. How does Google redirect anything by putting ads on top of search results?

[harry8]

Best of luck to you in your quest for understanding.