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Search Engines Take Their Time Disclosing Paid Links

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-shocker-here dept.

An anonymous reader says "This CNN.com article talks about how most search engines have not disclosed the difference between a paid ad and an 'objective' result. The one exception of course is every geek's favorite search engine, Google. Once again, hooray for Google!" We mentioned the FTCs Mandate that search engines be clear about who's paying for what. Apparently all the non-google engines are on vacation ;)

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  1. google is the only search engine by bigpat · · Score: 1, Troll

    Pretty much. Yahoo is a distant second from the last polls I saw. Kinda makes me a bit worried that we have all our eggs in one basket, but I think this and most other of their actions have shown them to be worthy of our trust.

    For now.

  2. Re:So you get a paid link by silicon_synapse · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is fucking cock-ass bullshit. Welcome to censorship.org, everybody. The editors go on and on about free speech, first amendment rights, etc. and then we get "You're not welcome to speak your mind here". Way to go, guys. For those who don't know, /. has now implemented a "two posts per day" limit on certain users.

    So open a couple dozen more accounts and tell the world.