Google Sued over Page Ranking

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".

Comments

they just have...

[silicon1]

search envy..

PlowKing?

[RobL3]

Ah... I always wondered what Homer did after the PlowKing fiasco....

Re:PlowKing?

[poopsie]

When your search rank is a fallin'
There's a man you should be callin'
That's KL5-4796,
Let it ring!

Mr. Google is a loser,
And I think he is a boozer,
So you better make that call to the Search King!

In Spanish too!

Senor Google no es macho,
Es solamente un borracho

Unbiased reporting..

[larien]

you gotta love it:

SearchKing, Oklahoma's premiere parasitic link-farm

vs

SearchKing is one of the pioneers in developing portal and search engine software and services

Guess which report has which statement? :)

Why on earth...

[LordKariya]

Can google not do whatever the hell it wants with its own site ? If google wants to give sites with the word "Sluts" a +90% page rank... it's perfectly free to do so. The "Whores" have no right to complain.

PageRank.c

[CaffeineAddict2001]

// Screw you search king!!
if(q[i]="Searchking") {
q[i].rank = q.bottom - 1
}

Re:PageRank.c

[Skirwan]

if(q[i]="Searchking") {

0 error(s), 1 warning(s):
On line 2 of post 4495094: Possible unwanted assignment.

Re:PageRank.c

[micromoog]

A *REAL* coder would have noticed that q.bottom - 1 would either be out of bounds or be one up from the bottom. Oh well, bad jokes deserve bad code I guess.

A *REAL* <blah blah blah> would have noticed that the original article mentions that the SearchKing press release is ranked 2 out of 10. Yes, 2 is "one up from the bottom".

Just like an egotistical ivory-tower half-blind code monkey to start pointing out bugs without reading the spec.

Searchking

[seanmeister]

Is it just me, or does "SearchKing" sound like Popeye attempting to say "searching"?

Re:Searchking

[Gudlyf]

Nah, that would be "Soitchking [insert Popeye laugh here]"

If it gets to court...

[surprise_audit]

Here's hoping the judge dislikes banner ads and popups as intensely as the rest of us:

SearchKing: We sell banner ads based on...
Judge: Case dismissed.
SearchKing: But, but, but...
Judge: You want to pay the defendant's costs? Great! Keep talking.

Re:His customers?

[Quixotic Raindrop]

D000d! That is such a good idea!

I can see it now: "The New York Times is reporting that a Class-action lawsuit filed in San Jose, California, demands that internet search engine SearchKing repay millions in lost revenue to all sites not indexed by SearchKing, because its lawsuit against Google caused an upswing in hits for SearchKing-related websites, which drove customers away from the plantiff's websites. In a related note, a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York today by businesses which are indexed by SearchKing, demanding that SearchKing sue Northern Light, AltaVista, Yahoo, and all other internet search engines to require that SearchKing hits be listed first in all returned search results."

They can't be serious. They CAN'T be f*****g serious. People wonder why innovation in this country is at a standstill virtually everywhere ... (commercially, anyway).

Fuckers!

[mosch]

This is shocking. I bet Google will have the gall to claim that they were only making these changes so that the most relevant results are listed, instead of admitting the truth, that they were attempted to destroy the very reputable SearchKing. Now how are on-line casino owners supposed to make themselves the top results for searches like 'Britney Spears Naked', or 'Busty Ladies'.

Clearly, this is a move by Google designed to hurt not only SearchKing, but the general consumer!

Re:SearchKing... of ads

[scott1853]

You're surprised? I'm going to get sued for posting their proprietary searching technology, but here's the source for the SearchKing algorithms:

SELECT * FROM LinksTable ORDER BY AmountPaid DESC

Doesn't seem like a search engine to me...

[WebMasterJoe]

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?"

Re:Google's PageRanking algorythm

[Omnifarious]

No, I don't, which is the reason their power must be destroyed.

Re:Too Easy

[xmutex]

You'd think the real anti Christ would just zap Google with some lightning bolts, some biblical hellfire, or some cool shit like that, rather than some lousy mundane lawsuit.

Too bad!

google owns you

[mstyne]

Did a search at SearchKing for 'google owns you'

The first result is ... er, interesting

here are the results