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Google Responds to SearchKing's Lawsuit

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the legal-parlance dept.

The Importance of writes "Back in October, SearchKing sued Google for reducing SearchKing's pagerank, as previously reported. Now, Google has filed a reply and a motion to dismiss. LawMeme has both documents as well as analysis."

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  1. Maybe I'm stupid enough... by LostCluster · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually, I think there's a decent case that needs to be talked about here...

    Google should not have the right to decide what it "doesn't like" and have a "Google doesn't like these sites" list that has a negative PageRank impact. Simply put, PageRank should be unbiased, and apply all rules equally to all sites.

    I think the big question here is if SearchKing was punished specifically by Google, or if SearchKing's behavior resulted in a tweak to the formula that'd punish a metaphoric SearchQueen, or any other site that tries to do what SearchKing did, the same way without any further changes to the system.

  2. Re:Maybe I'm stupid enough... by LostCluster · · Score: 1, Troll

    But Google doesn't claim PageRank to be an expression of their opinion. PageRank is a hard-to-bias formula that, in their opinion, is the best way to sort web pages.

    If they are making human decisions about what's a good or a bad webpage, then they should be disclosing that fact on their site.