Is Google Breaking Their Own Rules?

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.

Comments

first cache?

[farquharsoncraig]

insightful interesting insightful interesting insightful interesting.

Stop the presses

[klubkid79]

News at 11 ! Google is promoting themselves on their own website!

so....

[jotux]

...this means when I search google.....for things related to google, google pages will make it higher in the search results?!?!

I feel so betrayed!

Brittant Spears

[Juiblex]

Their next step is to put on bottom of google.com front page, in font size 1, white foreground on white background:

"britney spears
brittany spears
brittney spears
britany spears
britny spears
briteny spears
britteny spears
briney spears
brittny spears
brintey spears
britanny spears
britiny spears
britnet spears
britiney spears
britaney spears
britnay spears
brithney spears
brtiney spears
birtney spears
brintney spears
briteney spears
bitney spears
brinty spears
brittaney spears
brittnay spears
britey spears
brittiny spears
brtney spears
bretney spears
britneys spears
britne spears
brytney spears
breatney spears
britiany spears
britnney spears
britnry spears
breatny spears
brittiney spears
britty spears
brotney spears
brutney spears
britteney spears
briyney spears
bittany spears
bridney spears
britainy spears
britmey spears
brietney spears
brithny spears
britni spears
brittant spears
bittney spears
brithey spears
brittiany spears
btitney spears
brietny spears
brinety spears
brintny spears
britnie spears"

Re:So what?

[AndyMan1]

I prefer the other golden rule: He who smelt it, dealt it.

Google hasn't done a very good job...

[PsychicX]

Searching for "search engine" only brings up google in 5th place. They're certainly doing a shoddy job of being unfair.

In other news...

[jotux]

Google bans google webpages from google search engine.

Re:So what?

[Anonymous Coward]

I prefer the other golden rule: He who smelt it, dealt it

Obviously you are unfamiliar with the great flatulence fallacy. This rule is nothing but a ruse to distract from the real source of the foul odor.

Re:No, wait

[Xzzy]

Sounds like a lot of people upset over nothing.

Welcome to the internet!

Re:So what?

[TheoMurpse]

Whoever denied it supplied it!

The shit sandwhich rule

[theshowmecanuck]

Whoever has lots of bread, doesn't have to eat shit.