Landing Spots

Going around to all these Auction sites, I notice that though the place you Teleport to when you enter the name of a sim into the World Map is usually the center of the sim, it isn't always. About a quarter of the time, I land off-center----in a shop.

And when that happens, I look at the area where the center of the sim is, to see if there are (say) Ban Lines that would prevent people from landing there. So far, I haven't seen any.

So...................................................do the people with these shops that Search (through the World Map) sends you directly to, PAY Linden Labs some fee for this service??


....This may be one of those things known, without needing to be mentioned, by long-timers in Second Life. But to me, it still seems rather mysterious.

(I might mention that one of the sims I Teleported to today, due to an Auction to be held there tomorrow, sent me into a dug-out area under a 'physical' floor---------so that I was trapped. I've been around long enough [less than 3 months, but long enough] to know I could pull up the World Map and click on another place in the same sim and Teleport there.

(But a newbie wouldn't know that. You have to wonder how many people have encountered such things and left Second Life in disgust....)