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Is Google Breaking Their Own Rules?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-than-a-little-fishy dept.

flood6 writes "Threadwatch is carrying a story about Google getting caught doing things they ban other websites for. Here is a page as viewed by the public and the same page as viewed by a search engine (their cache)." Note that the titles in the cache are employing classic keyword stuffing, presumably to improve rankings.

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  1. Google gets a lot of praise by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A lot of it undeserved. While they have a perfectly adequate prosduct (in the form of a search engine) and some pretty lousy products (GMail and Google groups) the fact remains that their only purpose is to make money.

    And do that they will. By hook or by crook. Only when they get found out will they change their policy and backtrack. If they can get away withtheir shady tactics they will. They were hoping to add adds to peoples email with GMail, of all things. Did they think we wouldn't care about our privacy? And what about the cookies? Why do they need a cookie that doesn't expire for several decades? Do they think we might never use google, and then in 2018 we suddenly want to find a sitre about marsupials using exactly the same machine, and get upset that links are not opened in a new window?

  2. Re:What I find amusing and disturbing by useosx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's just one problem, these so-called "conservative" sites are just attempting to hide the truth and spread FUD.

    Whereas these "crazy" "left-wing" sites are trying to expose the truth.

    These labels that are put on them give the false impression that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

    Hope this clears things up ;)

  3. Re:First off by Transcendent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yahoo carries a lot more weight than others credit them for. When Google fails to pick up something relavent then I go to Yahoo.

    Funny thing is, Yahoo! uses Google's search engine.

    Probably not the latest version of it, and of course tweaked for Yahoo! based on who they think will be using their search engine and other reasons, but it is Google's.