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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nave@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. Does it actually work?

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[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who would EVER give business to a place that starts by trying to trick you?

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you never patronize any business that uses the .99 and .95 pricing schemes? Gas stations are the worst offenders with their sub-penny pricing schemes.

Practically all ads exaggerate to the point of lying. "Luxury apartment for rent" <-- just a run of the mill apartment, not luxurious. Etc.

Business culture is a culiure of lies.

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fuck them all. I absolutely do avoid companies that do these things.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're telling me you don't fill up your car?

Every single gas station in the US of A uses a sub-penny pricing scheme. I have not seen a sigle exception yet.

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't own a car. I take public transit, bike and walk.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK, you're a hardy soul then. I support your efforts. 💫

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate your reply. And I also understand its not 100% black and white - its complicated. But I feel strongly we gotta fight back against bullshit behavior in this world in any way we can if we want people to act better.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reading this wholesome exchange, today I'm going to fight back extra hard against all the bullshit and act better.

Thank you both for reminding us.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The hard part is living somewhere that offers such options

[–] seeCseas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Have you or your parents never used a phone book to look up businesses and ended up calling A1 Plumbing, AAA locksmith, etc?

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

So, are you a hermit?

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're not trying to trick you they're trying to rank up in Google. It's basically SEO in real life. Every business with any online awareness is trying to juice their SEO. This isn't the businesses fault, this is the world Google made for us.

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Of course, an argument can be made that this is the evolution of the number of companies that used a variance of "AAA" to appear first in the phone books of old

[–] HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How is this tricking you? If anything it’s tricking Google, but who gives a fuck about Google. This is a business trying to work within a broken system.