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Google Delists BMW-Germany
Raenex writes "The car maker BMW has had its German website bmw.de delisted from Google. The delisting was punishment for using deceptive means to boost page ranking, which has now been set to zero for BMW. Matt Cutts, a Google employee who works to stop unethical search manipulation, originally reported the delisting in his blog and suggests that camera maker Ricoh is not far behind."
Sounds like he just hit a nerve with some bloggers.
Its the truth though, alot of times the more relevant/useful search results are buried underneath lots of blogs/splogs/etc. It gets more annoying when people use Google to further their political agendas, such as the case with Jew and Jewwatch.com and Failure for anti-Bushies.
There's an easy answer for the tailgating problem... GET OUT OF THE LEFT LANE!
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
It is a precedent. Imagine for example giving the police the right to arrest anybody they deem necessary and trust them to make correct judgement every time because they are good guys after all - I mean they are not just going to start arresting people at random, right ? If there is a power to be abused, it probably will be, sooner or later ...
Because a search engine in an open and competitive market determining how best to return results to its users is just like a police state.
Where's my option to choose a different police force if I don't like the one that wants to arrest me?
Its not just random keywords. I had my wife read it to me. Its a description of the content on their site. Considering its a graphical page, they were probably making it useful. I don't see what the problem with bmw's content. Hell it would assist blind people (although they dont need cars).
Damn google fan boys... think before you speak... google is just pissed because they didn't make ad dollars off this. They do text ads all the time and get praised on it. I hate adsense! Links on pages attacked to every frickin word is annoying.. there is nothing different with what bmw did except its THEIR website and THEIR content.
Google sucks. Get over it. And no i'm not a yahoo, msn or any other fan boy.. just stating the obvious. I just wish we had a good search engine to use and not one based on greed. And speaking of google, why didn't they use their hordes of phds to write an algorithm to detect that page if its a problem.
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Are you 70 years old? Your attitude seems to reflect it. There's a reason you see signs that say "slower traffic stay right". If someone wants to pass you in the left lane, get your lazy, self-righteous behind out of the way.
You're just like the rest of the idiots who demand courtesy and favors for themselves, but give no thoughts about *other* people's interests. Believe it or not, the entire universe doesn't revolve around you, and the left lane was not made for your own personal use. Use it for what it was made for, or keep out of it. It's easy.
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Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.