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Google Blocks 'Optimized' Pages

Posted by timothy on from the they-own-their-servers dept.

Rhett Creighton writes "For the past few years, webmasters have found tricks that bring their page higher for a given keyphrase search. Google recently implemented a filter to block sites that appeared to be tricking it into gaining a higher ranking. This NYTimes article reports of angry retailers who are losing their businesses, while this article gives more technical conspiracy theories of what google is actually doing."

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  1. Google tracking clicked URLs too! by scovetta · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google is tracking clicked URLs by making the links all redirect to the destination site THROUGH a Google page.

    Is anyone else as concerned about this as I am? Sure, Google, might just want to use the data to optimize their engine or provide a service to customers, but do I really want Google knowing WHICH of their sites I (based on my IP) navigate to? They should at least have put up some notification.

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    Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
  2. Re:Google ain't that good by djupedal · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly. When will people realize that goggle is tweaked to the hilt, and not a legitimate image of the 'net.

    google is just blackmailing the few sites that haven't given them money yet. I bet if they make contact, google will say, 'oh gee, we can make that less painful...for a fee'.

    Just wait for the other shoe to drop. google is all about revenue, and not about the masses having a clear view of the net.