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Somewhere in Google is a list of search categories that is sortable by search volume and adwords revenue. While the anti-trust implications probably are scary to them, they are chipping away at that list.

Weather search? Google gives you weather info right in the SERP. Stock search? Same thing. News search? Hrm.

Restaurant search? Why hand all of the revenue from these search results to advertisers and only take a slice of it for the adwords (or NONE from organic results)?

If a lot of people search for it and companies are making money, Google is at least discussing whether they should own the content/service at the top of the search results.

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