[milemi]

Did the phone company provide the service for free or did you have to pay the phone bill?

Congratulations on discovering how advertising works.

[harry8]

The condescension is unnecessary and against the guidelines around here.

Did the phone company put your calls through to your competitor if you paid them to do that or would they be in big trouble for doing so. It's not "advertising" it's getting between you and your customers and tolling the infrastructure to the highest bidder.

The phone company was regulated very heavily as a utility just like google isn't.

[bagacrap]

Google isn't redirecting DNS lookups. Google is much closer to the yellow pages, which if you hadn't noticed is full of both paid and unpaid content.

[milemi]

Brave edgelords exposing Google mafia for what it is can’t take a little condescension. Heroes just aren’t what they used to be.

Despite my best efforts I can’t follow your overstretched analogy. How does Google redirect anything by putting ads on top of search results?