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by bzbz 975 days ago
“Google gave the second-place bidder a built-in handicap to make their offer more competitive” is the tamest way of phrasing it, given that the “handicap”’s only effect is to cost the first-place bidder more money.

It never helps the second-place bidder. I’d argue “handicap” is deceitful.