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gowld on June 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: As Tech Goliaths Face a Reckoning, Small Businesse...

Like the Yellow Pages, where your phone listing is immediately adjacent to listings for all your competitors.

Untit1ed on June 11, 2019 [–]

I'd argue this use of Google is more like the White Pages, where you look up by name alphabetically.

Yellow Pages would be more like googling "<cuisine> Restaurant in <town>", in which case displaying with all your competitors is much more reasonable.

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