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Google Sued over Page Ranking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-i-wanna-be-ranked-higher dept.

OrangeHairMan writes "Google.com is being sued by SearchKing.com because Google "purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' web sites, causing his business to suffer financially." There's a page on SearchKing.com's site too." Does anyone besides me find this hilarious? My favorite part is that the name of the site is "Search King".

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  1. Sorry by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We don't live in Libertarianville, we live in the U.S. Here in the U.S. we don't allow companies to engage in unfair business practices, regardless of whether or not they're a monopoly. Now move back to Libertarianville. Oh, that's right, there is none, cause no one agrees with your stupid points of view.

  2. Re:Google has a monopoly by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Even if they did, so what?

    If they did, then they're engaging in unfair business practices.

    Google can rank pages any way they want to.

    Obviously not, or there wouldn't be a lawsuit.

    In this scenario, if the users of Google decided that they would rather use a search engine that doesn't arbitrarily block sites, they'd move to another search engine.

    And if the people of the United States wanted to not have laws against unfair business practices, they'd move to Libertarianville.