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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. And the rest are stolen by wirefarm · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just searched for MMDC (my own site) on SearchKing and the results seemed to be lifted directly from Google:
    Google's index of my site:

    MMDC Tokyo :: Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas ...
    Aug 29, 2002 - 11:43 PM, MMDC Tokyo, Time is an illusion.
    Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams, Main Menu. ...
    mmdc.net/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages

    SearchKing's:

    MMDC Tokyo :: Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas ...
    Aug 29, 2002 - 11:43 PM, MMDC Tokyo, Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams, Main Menu. ...

    What are the odds that they both crawled my site at exactly the same minute on the same day?

    These clowns are pathetic.

    Cheers,
    Jim

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  2. Re:Too Easy by Ichijo · · Score: 5, Informative
    Said by BoBaBrain:
    "As a matter of interest, are Google under any legal obligation to provide an 'fair' search?"

    Probably not. As a matter of fact, according to Google's own Terms of Service:

    "You may not use the Google Search Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales."

    ...which is exactly what Search King is trying to do for themselves and their customers. Needless to say,the case should be thrown out.

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