There is a world wide pyramid sales system worldwide. It's called the stock market

Couple of quibbles: There are many stock markets, not just one. And while they might be involved in pyramid schemes, the markets themselves are nothing worse than legalized gambling with typically generous tax rules for winnings. Mostly, I tend to think of them as mood rings for the rich and the servants who tend massive money piles for the rich. 

WhiteElk you are wrong, plain and simple.

The advertising/distribution/marketing IS a Pyramid 'scheme' process as it's a mathematical progression.  I can't help it if you are lost in semantics for whatever reason but so be it.

Google does NOTHING other than distribute/advertise/invite sufficient people to get the PYRAMID system kick-started.

It ultimately costs THEM nothing in advertising their service....they don't letter-drop...door knock....take TV time....whatever.  No, they "employ" their own users/customers to Advertise FOR them.  They subversively 'trick' their users into spending time and/or effort passing on these 'invites' to others for no fee for work done....none offered....none given.

They then benefit from the viral nature of the PYRAMID process to disseminate their advertising to as many people as fast as possible so as to falsely imply their service is both fantastically desirable and indispensible.

None of it/them are.

The reason Google is commercially successful is down to their ability to suck in as many people as quickly as possible into there data-mining processes desired by and bought by their Advertisers.

It is this dissemination of invitations in PYRAMID form that ensures the commercial success of Google.  They need a database of users....and the users themselves get them FOR Google.

Lemmings.

Ignoring the mathematics of Pyramid distribution, even without people involved 'paying Google' to please YOUR interpretation of a 'Pyramid Scheme'... the mechanics of it is this...

Google GIVES User One 6 invites.

User 1 spends 5 minutes passing on [advertising] them [Google] - and spending time has a commercial 'value'.

Tier 2 [of a PYRAMID] each spends 5 minutes advertising Google....'cost to' Tier 2 = 30 minutes

Tier 3 each 5 minutes advertising ...180 minutes [three hours of 'advertising that Google didn't pay for]

Tier 4 - do I really have to go on.... or is it making sense yet?

The whole fun of it is...."do no harm" or whatever Google's motto is looks intact....there's nothing of the 'regular' Pyramid to collapse...

...but perhaps their motto should be 'Get others to do your work FOR you....and don't even THINK of paying them for the privilege"

Or, Huckleberry Finn's fence painting scheme.

Yes...Mark Twain should sue for royalties....

SOooooooo...you're saying that Huckleberry Finn created 'Crowdsourcing' ?

And that Huckleberry Finn, by exploiting free labor was in fact, himself, a communist?

How marxist of you.

Yes, Comrade Po'. No Borsht... only 'Duck Soup'.

Well....let's get it kinda accurate....

It was Tom Sawyer's scheme.... 

 “Oh come, now, you don’t mean to let on that you like it?”
The brush continued to move.
“Like it? Well I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth—stepped back to note the effect—added a touch here and there—criticized the effect again—Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:
“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”

I was going to bed... but, the reference was to the book. Yes, it was Tom's scheme.

G'nite, all.

Actually it was Mark's scheme. He just exploited Tom to exploit Huck and the others.

Twain's a commie!

Want more fiction from Smedley? Ever see the movie he starred in?  

AHA!

So you ARE a chubby chaser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Closer to Chevy Chase-r.   

Stay on my good side, Smedley! Your "Special Day" is approaching.....

Then he sells them his version of diet pills, which also serve as arthritis pills; headache pills, cures for baldness, flatulence and the common cold. 

Talk about a snake oil salesman... he even claims they are Viagra replacements and can boost sperm counts.

There's only one warning on the pack: "Do NOT Get Stuck in Throat or You Will Get a Stiff Neck." 

Yeah, after a lengthy consultation over the internet, he tried to sell me some on the premise they would assist with impotence and hair loss, but I know he was really trying to get me to take them to eradicate extreme flatulence.... tho I think that's more a bi-product of curing the common cold.  You see, the flatulence occurred every time I sneezed, and now I'm not sneezing anymore, problem solved. 

Don't think they do much for impotence, either!  He said to take one before bed, but the trouble there is that they go to my head when I lay down... and I'm up all night cos my eyelids are.

Ok, look out... time to take another one.  Yup, they also serve as an anti-psychotic that stops me rambling on.

But being from "down under" things got topsy-turvyed: His hair is standing straight up, but his... ahem... fell off!

Me poor Cap'n be sailin' the 7 seas searchin' an' searchin'... sorry Cap'n.    [e classic]:'([/e]

     bwah hah hah....the plan worked!

So if I was to stand on my head against a wall [for support] do you think it'd work for the other 'thing'?

And IF successful, what position would you call that? 

Looked high and low in the Kama Sutra and can't find a thing on it.

No, as it was lost at sea!

Situs inversus...

Of course! How were you holding the book?

You shoulda tried the artuS amaK, Cap'n! Ir'd be a weirdie position, I'm afraid.... You can get a special deal on me "Inverter"...

Just dial  1-800-Bux-4-Doc.

A scantily clad assistant will be wiv you shortly!

Well that buggers that idea.... me bad back yer know.  Yup, if I'm not on the bottom....

Orright, then....  and I get a test run of this "inverter" thingwybob?   Just hope she doesn't mind being on top.    

Um, that was Tom Sawyer folks.