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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".
Maybe Google will save Searchking's life, and then they'll join forces; not even God can stop them combined!
on its PageRank technology. And just because you're not a monopoly doesn't mean you can engage in unfair trade practices. As for waiting for Google to turn evil, if they are punishing their competitors by intentionally lowering their results, I'd call that evil.
What if slashdot refused to allow me to post on its site because I run SlashdotSucks? Don't you think that would be an unfair trade practice?
Searchking.de is not the banned site. The banned site is Searchking.com [www.searchking].
It is not alegally an algorithm problem. It's about one big company banning and smashing a number of smaller companys who dare to sell what Google may only Google has the right to do: put you on top of the result search, paying for Google Adwords ads.
The guys at SK think Google has manualy degraded them, and hundreds of innocent parners sites, as a penalty for seling tex based ads, as a way to improve its Google PageRank(TM).
I personally belive SK may has done a lot of stupid things, one of them suing Google.
But I also think we should be more aware of who the Google Guys realy are: agressive advertising dealers, who may think are the only guys arround entitle to put a price to who important our sites are, with the power to ban your site.
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...phil
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