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Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-sure-piss-me-off-more dept.

netbuzz writes "Merely hiring a blackhat practitioner of search-engine optimization may be indicative of a willingness to 'cut corners' — the kind that land business executives behind bars — says Matt Cutts, Google's top cop regarding such matters. It's an interesting theory, as generalizations go, but there would seem to be quite a leap between risking the death penalty from Google and risking a stint in prison."

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  1. This should have been dumped in the Firehose! by garcia · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the article's quotation of Cutts:

    Can I definitively claim that there's a connection between a willingness to embrace blackhat SEO and a willingness to cut corners in other areas of business? No, of course not.

    So in other words, he's drawing a conclusion based on one (or a handful, who knows) of cases and then this particular author made a story out of it and Slashdot picked it up?

    Yeah, non-issue; move along.