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I did a search on SearchKing to find out why it sucks, but none of the hits were relevant. I guess that's why SearchKing sucks!

But wait, there's more! I searched for the same thing in Google and found this site, which is part of SearchKing. It may not explain why SearchKing sucks, but I think it might answer the question, "What are these guys smoking?"

That SearchKing just forwards a search to Google, parses the output and makes it look like a different search engine?

I entered the name of the company I work for into Google and did the same for SearchKing. Lo and behold, the results were identical. (The only differences being a few links returned by Google were to PDFs -- SearchKing stripped them out.)

Try it yourself:

Google search for "slashdot"

SearchKing search for "slashdot"

There is a slight discrepancy with the first link returned, but other than that, they're the same.

Nice... sue the company that powers your rip-off business...

J

SearchKing has forums. I like this post best. It is from the SearchKing himself, Bob King. It is a defense of his actions. It seems that he's taking heat for this on his own site.

Care to give him your take on it?

SearchKing has forums. I like this post best. It is from the SearchKing himself, Bob King. It is a defense of his actions. It seems that he's taking heat for this on his own site.

Care to give him your take on it?

In other news, the "Search King" has teamed up with country singer Linda Ronstadt.

Linda was called into action after years of "wanting to do a project together for awhile."

I think that anybody with a legal background or an interest in law might like to take a look at the documents filed. They are rather brief.

Documents

From SearchKing press release

Bob Massa, president of SearchKing., Inc. and PR Ad Network, filed a lawsuit today against Google on the grounds the organization arbitrarily and purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' web sites, causing his business to suffer financially. Massa is asking that the court grant preliminary and permanent injunctions against Google.

Hate to tell you Bob, an action cannot be arbitrarily ("determined by chance") and purposefully ("intentional") committed.

Way to go you...CEO!

From the motion filed:

Once Google became aware of the fact Search King was profiting from Google's page ranking system it purposefully devalued Search King and the web sites it hosts

First of all, I'm sure this is majorly redundant, what did they expect? Google is not a peace-loving group of coding hippy monkies. It is a for-profit company. I liken this to someone writing a book report, and then someone else trying to sell the book using the book report as advertisment without asking the report's author for permission.

...and one more thing:

We have no control over anyone, including the websites within our network...

That itself speaks volumes!

results for "php" on searchking Note that the first page of results has nuthin to do with php, or its development, hell it doesnt even return php.net (php's homepage). Meanwhile Google's results return very informational and useful sites, and clearly define which results are paid for. I suppose this is just a window into the obviuos.

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