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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.
Story is a troll... did anyone think to do search google for traffic+estimate to see where in the ranking the page comes? It's not even in the top five.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
As I noted in a reply to a previous post, it didn't seem at all clear to me from the article that the problem was in the title bar. Since I hardly ever look at the title bar anyway, I missed what they were referring to. In the third link, it looked like what they were trying to draw attention to was the number of times the word "traffic" appeared in the actual page body.
Anyway, after being informed by the first reply to my comment, I saw the issue, and I withdraw my original comment, as it was obviously incorrect.
So in summation, yes I did read the article, and the article did not adequately explain the issue, especially given that the third link in the summary led me to believe the problem was something other than what it obviously was. I know it's sacreligious for a Slashdot denizen to admit they were wrong, but in this case, I was apparently wrong.
"Why? Because it's their site and they are in no need to follow their own rules."
I wonder what this post would have been like if the story was about Microsoft instead.
"This is so typical of Microsoft, they shouldn't get away with it..."
"Derp de derp."