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"For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline's homepage when the airline's name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine."

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If you go and search "Delta" today on Google, the top result is an advertisement for Delta that points to delta.com.




This is because delta doesn’t want southwest’s ad to show up when people search for delta




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