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Search Engine Payola

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trust-but-verify dept.

Cranial Dome writes: "The top four portals -- MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and Terra Lycos -- all have search results tainted by their acceptance of money for listings, according to this article in the Washington Post. Of the top search engines and portals (including Alta Vista, Inktomi, and Lycos), only Google has vowed to NOT accept money from companies for guaranteed placement in search results. Another reason to love the Google thang."

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  1. Dumb M.F. -- Meta by nebaz · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I remember an amusing story about how when you typed the keywords "dumb motherf---er" into google, how the first result you would get back would be a link to George W. Bush's campaign page. Now when you type it in, you get a link to a Wired article describing the phenomena. For this keyword, the search has become meta.

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  2. Google Cache by radoni · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so... there's the potential for Google to cache a webpage containing the DeCSS source code in UUEncoded format. what are the legal ramifications? has this sort of thing already happened?

    i ask, since if i'm at a friends house on their wintel box, and i need a program i download it. need a registration number? 13 minutes and google.com, i've found a cached page with the info i want.

    food for thought.

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  3. OT: your nick by krog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    strange to see you at +3...

    are you implying that your nick is *not* based on "Powerman 5000"?

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