Originally Posted by
John
Google pushed via their algorithms shopping traffic to Amazon, simultaneously they downlisted smaller local operators. The process took about ten years. Google gained trust over ten years, the next ten years they spent abusing that trust shifting visibility and search ranks to Amazon and their own properties (youtube, adwords, etc). A lot of talking heads (conservatives) are crying foul over google de-platforming them but for small business, the heart beat of America, the de-platforming happened ten years ago. It is all basically a Chinese influenced model, centralization of goods and services.
Time is short. Or... time to fight back? I don't know if there is enough collective sense available to reject these platforms.