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Vine was spiritually guided to place world and Australian psychic predictions online to help people understand the extreme earth changes due to human ignorance, greed and corruption. Vine is a spiritual voice for the changes necessary to bring about a reduction of the devasting environmental and social effects of climate change.



Psychic Prediction by - 12th June 2011

Free World Wide Web Usage? Not for Much Longer if you are a Business Domain


How are search engines killing small business in Australia
Spirit is guiding that the large search engine companies are about to change the way they do business. Google, Yahoo and Bing are looking for ways to increase advertising dollars and want business customers to pay when their businesses are listed under their banner

What does this mean for a business that currently doesn't use Google Ads or similar advertising?

As I tune into the software being upgraded by the I.T. engineers, I see software being designed to stop businesses that don't purchase search engine advertising, from being found. Search Engine companies want you to move with the times and that's all about paying for your search engine listings. If you want to be found on the web, then in the future you will have to pay.

This is going to have the original developers of the web crying-foul as the web was meant to evolve and be free. The web news isn't going to be dull when these changes begin to become more noticeable.

Even the SEO companies who have been able to play rough-shot with black hat SEO and affiliate link sharing are going to be scratching their head with these changes. Exciting times for the future of the world-wide-web market…


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UPDATE: 14th September 2023

US Dept of Justice Takes Google to Court

Google Antitrust Court Case
The biggest U.S. antitrust trial in decades gets underway in September 2023 as the U.S. Department of Justice takes on Google.


Vine's Prediction TRUE
Over the years in the updates to this prediction we have detailed the ways businesses now have to pay search engines to be found on the internet and how this severely limits choice and sends many small businesses out of business.


Now, the US Dept of Justice (DOJ) and 14 states, have accused Google of illegally limiting online search options.

The US Govt claims that Google illegally pays billions of dollars to companies like Apple, Samsung and LG to make Google the default search engine on your phone and computer, and shut out rivals like Microsoft Bing and Duck Duck Go.

The Govt says this allows Google to dominate nearly 90% of all searches in the US, and 95% of searches on mobile devices.

The DOJ claims this leads to Google charging advertisers higher prices, “continuously favouring advertising on its own platform and steering advertiser spending towards itself.”

This means you are even more likely to be pushed to the Google-monopoly where you'll see the first few pages of your search filled with paid adverts.

So you are more likely to only see information from the highest bidders and you'll perhaps never see the best search result for you.

You probably won't even realise that the best result for your search is being kept from you because the business couldn't afford Google's monopoly advertising-bidding-war prices.

The end result of all of this is, if you choose not to give Google all your business data for free, and lots of money to enter into their very expensive advertising bidding wars, your business will be very hard to find on the web - the one place it needs to be found.

"If you want to be found on the web, then in the future you will have to pay." - Earth Seer VINE, 2011


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UPDATE: 13th February 2020

Pay for Web Advertising or Lose Your Rankings

When Vine first made this psychic prediction, it was easily possible to get your small business found on the first page of organic web search results, using good SEO practices.

But Vine predicted that would change. She predicted that businesses would have to pay to be found in the first few pages of a web search.

"Google, Yahoo and Bing are looking for ways to increase advertising dollars and want business customers to pay when their businesses are listed under their banner."

Vine's prediction was spot on.

Any web search for a business today, requires wading through a sea of paid search engine ads, Google Place listings, directories and review sites that more than likely show fake bad reviews of the business you are looking for, before you see the actual business listing.

It is now almost impossible for businesses to be found on the first page of search results, without paying for ads or directory listings. So unless your business is ranked in the Google Places directory or you pay Google for an ad, your business won’t get any business.

The problem is much worse on mobile phones where a lot more scrolling is required to get past the paid ads.

Nowadays, the recommended SEO strategy to get your website found, is to pay, pay, pay and keep paying:

  • Pay for Google Ads- which can be very expensive for small businesses to compete in a bidding system with large companies.

  • Pay for directory listings
    eg: Yellow Pages etc.. which create web sites that are directly connected to Google Maps and business to business partnerships that use algorithm rankings to discredit non-paying businesses, and favour those that do pay.

  • Hope you don’t get fake bad reviews on those directory sites that Google will display before your legitimate listing.

  • Make sure you give all of your information to Google for free, and hope they will list you in a Google Places web search listing.

Vine's psychic prediction from eight years ago, has come true: "If you want to be found on the web, then in the future you will have to pay."



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UPDATE: 8th July 2019

Businesses Now Paying to be Found on Web

In 2011 when Vine made this psychic prediction about businesses having to pay to be found in web searches, normal search results for Australian small businesses that don't contain paid ads (organic search results), were still appearing at the top of web search pages.

But not anymore.

Since Vine made this prediction, paid search results such as Google Ads have been slowly pushing "free" organic searches off the first pages of web results.

When Google's algorithms detect that a web search has "commercial intent", it displays up to four ads at the top and bottom of the page, which pushes down any organic results on desktop computers and makes long scrolls necessary on mobiles before any organic searches are found.

This means that small businesses in Australia are far less likely to be found in organic searches under their own business name and instead, they are being forced to pay exorbitant pay-per-click advertising fees for ads that aren't necessarily helping them or the Australian economy.

How Does Small Business Not Being Found in Searches, affect the Economy?

Google makes $billions of dollars in Australia, almost all of it from advertising revenue from Australian businesses, and yet Google pays almost no tax in Australia. Because of the competitive auction-like way Google has set up its advertising, only the richest businesses can afford to keep advertising.

Australian small businesses are burning up their web advertising budgets without gaining significant results. All of that wasted advertising money is being siphoned out of the Australian economy by overseas companies that don't pay tax in Australia.

Then, when Australian small businesses can no longer afford to compete for web advertising, they are stopped in their tracks, just as Vine spiritually predicted.

How Search Engines are Charging Businesses to be Found on the Web

Google has been increasing the number of ads on the top and bottom of web pages. They now take up a lot of space on the first few pages of search results, leaving less space for normal search results that do not pay to be placed on top.

On many desktop computers this means that small businesses no longer have any chance of appearing at the top of the page when it first loads in (above the fold).

Businesses that used to be found on the first page in organic searches are now pushed to the second and third pages, and that is only if they spend enough time and/or money on being found in organic SEO search results.

Furthermore, since voice activation methods like Siri, Amazon Echo and Google Home now stop people from sighting all the search results and ads, they are unable to identify a credible business, from an imposter. (See fake Google Maps business listings below).

As business searches are pushed further back from the first page they are being clicked less and the problem gets worse.

You now have to scroll past ads for other businesses using keywords specifically designed to have their ads placed before businesses that may better suit your needs. It's worse on mobile phones where initial search result screens are now completely taken up with ads. Much more scrolling is required before organic search results are found.

Fake Businesses on Google Ads

And it gets worse... Unless small Australian businesses can afford to internationally trademark their brand name, Google Ads even allows other businesses to falsely use the business names of their competitors.

(The ACCC tried to stop Google from doing this, but lost the court case). So it remains possible to click on one business that hijacks business names, and uses cloaking websites in order to steal their customers. Google allows this to happen.

11 Million Fake Businesses on Google Maps

Wall Street Journal Tweet - millions of google map listings are fake

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google Maps is filled with millions of scam operations that are impersonating real businesses. In fact the Wall Street Journal says there are 11 million fake businesses on Google Maps, all trying to scam you, and Google allows this to happen and they siphon billions of dollars from the Australian economy.

No wonder Google felt they could no longer keep the slogan "Don't be Evil".

Dont be evil
Google no longer uses the slogan "Don't be evil'


Advertising Wars that Small Business Can't Win

Google has started an internet advertising war between big and small business and international businesses using Australian business address listings that aren't actually located in Australia. It is a war that small business cannot win.

Businesses no longer have a set cost for advertisements. They are now forced to bid against each other on a pay-per-click basis to have their ads appear at all and even to be found under their own business or brand name. The cost of Google Ads can start as low as $1 per click, but in reality that's never going to be enough in an auction where only the highest bidder has their ad shown.

The truth is, businesses pay exorbitant advertising costs. The resulting cost of advertising on the web can easily run into hundreds of thousands of dollars in competitive listing classifications.

It is a bidding war in which small businesses just can not compete. The amount of small businesses going into liquidation (some long term businesses) are resulting in more people trying to find employment and putting greater pressure on social services.

So, just as Vine predicted, the search engines are making businesses pay to be found on the web, and this is sending many smaller businesses into liquidation.



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UPDATE: 14th January 2018

The End of Internet Neutrality

In December 2017, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to end Internet Neutrality.

The net neutrality rules prevented internet providers from blocking or artificially slowing internet traffic for anybody who doesn't pay for the 'normal' faster speed.

Just as Vine predicted, ending Net Neutrality increases the chances of businesses having to pay to be found on the internet. Vine predicted, "If you want to be found on the web then in the future you will have to pay".

How the Ending of Net Neutrality Costs You More

People are significantly less likely to visit a site if it is too slow, and search engines like Google already penalise sites for being too slow. Ending net neutrality means your web site could be artificially slowed unless you pay extra and that in turn means your site will not be found, unless you pay. Those who can least afford to pay, will suffer the most.

Paying to be found in web searches is exactly what Vine predicted in 2011.


Businesses are Already being Forced to Pay

Search Engine Companies like Google have already eroded the neutrality of the web by introducing paid listings that take up the entire mobile phone screen that shows your search results. (See: above the fold).

To see the regular unpaid-for search results that correspond to your search criteria, you often have to scroll a long way down, past many search result ads that paid to be found first.

So, right now, this means that businesses (or anybody) that need to be found in the first few screens of a web search, must pay Google or other search engine companies, to be found at the top of web searches.

These ads (i.e. Google Ads) are paid for on a per-click basis. The more you pay in relation to what others are prepared to pay, the higher the search engines will place your ad.

Vine's Prediction has Come True

This means that businesses are bidding against each other to be found higher in your search. Businesses can pay as much as $1-$50 every time someone clicks their ad and goes to their site.

Businesses are already being forced to pay to found in search engine listings and the vast majority of small businesses simply can't afford it.

Vines prediction is accurate.



UPDATE: 23rd February 2015

Paid Inclusion - Web Searches

Paid inclusion is a search engine marketing tool in which Web site owners pay the search engine company to guarantee that their sites will show up in organic search results. Many older search engine companies originally used 'paid inclusion' as a revenue raiser but phased it out because Google was not using it.

Vine's Prediction Comes True
Google Embraces “Paid Inclusion”

But less than a year after Vine's psychic prediction about search engines introducing payment for organic searches, Google performed a complete about-face. In 2012, Google introduced paid inclusion within its search engine family of products.

Google Flights, Google Hotel Finder, and Google Shopping, introduced after Vine's psychic prediction, are all new forms of paid inclusion programs. The concern is that Google's use of paid inclusion is just the beginning of an attempt to have paid inclusion pushing organic rankings below the fold, and thus make payment necessary for all businesses trying to be found in organic searches.


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