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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.

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  1. Have I missed something? by noelmarkham · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They look the same to me

  2. Re:Could be keyword stuffing... by eln · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Okay, you caught me: I skimmed the article, and missed where it said "title." You may continue to crucify me over this extremely minor issue to your heart's content.

  3. Re:Could be keyword stuffing... by northcat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sure thing. "It's because of people like you who don't read TFA, that the world is in this stage." <^-- Does that qualify as crucification?

  4. Re:Could be keyword stuffing... by arose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We don't crucify people here, we slash and dot them.

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  5. Congratulations by metamatic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That are the most ugly headlines to torture the English grammars with incorrect singulars/plural I are seeing in a long whiles.

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  6. Re:Truly clueless - pagerank IS a popularity ranki by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Why don't you repost when you have a basic first-grade grasp of reading comprehension. Nowhere did I say Google was doing it right.

    you got owned, just deal with it.

  7. Re:So what? by tylernt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or even better, allow people to edit posts after they have posted them, just like every other web-based forum I have ever used.

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  8. Re:Truly clueless - pagerank IS a popularity ranki by geminidomino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You proved yourself to be functionally illiterate, and I got "owned?"

    Lemme know when you come back to the planet with the blue sky.