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Google Punishing Chrome Results For 60 Days
djl4570 writes "'Google is pushing its own Chrome browser down in search rankings for 60 days following reports that the company was involved in an ad campaign that paid for links to bolster search traffic. ... According to Sullivan, it appears that Google contracted its Web ads out to a firm called Essence Digital, which in turn asked a company called Unruly Media to implement the campaign.' I see this as an astute move on Google's part. Rather than circle the wagons they say 'oops' and correct the problem. Google understands that such link pimping is a cancer that undermines the integrity of their search engine. That's why it isn't allowed and now Google is saying we don't support a double standard either."
4) Bing and Yahoo gave the same exact search results.
And they have since 2009. Yahoo uses Bing for its search result.
It's how corporate world works. You establish new entities to do the dirty work for the "clean" parent company. For example, see this patent laundering done by Apple.
Google doesn't want to game their own search engine. The entire point of the article is that they're "punishing" themselves because a sub-contractor did try to game Google's own search engine and Google is saying "Hey, look, we control the damned thing and we don't want to give ourselves an unfair advantage so don't come bitching to us if we catch you trying to game our system and then we punish you for it."