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Google Doesn’t Hate ALL Paid Links, Just Yours
Yet another post about paid links. I know, I know, will the madness ever stop? No way! Why would we want to not have something to talk about? Today’s topic is paid links, search rankings, and sitelinks. I’ve known about these paid links for a long time and so has Google I’m sure. In this [...]
full storyGoogle Lawsuit Over Search Rankings
Are you ready for another win for Google? Here we go! This time around, “two real estate agents in Victoria, Australia have filed suit against Google. Mark Forytarz & Paul Castran claim defamation due to articles painting them in a negative light that can be found on the search engine.” This story sounds awefully familiar. [...]
full storyWhat Will Happen to PageRank
PageRank™ is part of how Google figures out what to show you in the results pages after submitting a search query. For example, when you search for “American government,” on Google, it will use PageRank as part of the formula to decide which page it’s going to show you as number one or number two, etc. There has been a lot of chatter among the SEOs and the
full storyGoogle: 1 Kinderstart: 0
As Kinderstart.com sued Google in July of 2006, they were fighting because Google set their PageRank to a zero which dramatically dropped off their search rankings. So the question and legal dilemma came up of whether it was wrongful of Google to do that to Kinderstart.com.
The judges ruled. Google’s algorithm ranking with PageRank has no legal binding of public service that Google has to support. Google has the right to delist and de-PageRank any site they want to for any reason they want.
What it all comes down to is that what Google provides to the public, Google Search and the other bajillion services and products, is free of charge. There is no warranty, there is no guarantee, there is no policy saying it will last forever. What Google offers to everyone is for free use and a … well, a nice gift. Google sends thousands upon thousands of hits per day to my sites … FOR FREE!
Search Engines Rights to the First Ammendment
Search engine decisions to reject ads is protected by 47 USC 230(c)(2) as a legitimate decision to filter “otherwise objectionable” content. The court concludes that “Section 230 provides Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft immunity for their editorial decisions regarding screening and deletion from their network.” I’m expecting the KinderStart judge to protect Google’s ranking choices under 230(c)(2) as well. (In case you’re wondering, we’re still waiting for the KinderStart ruling that
full storyGoogle 2006
2006 is probably the best year for Google yet. A lot…and I say that in an understated way…of things happened with Google this past year. So lets start the list of things that happened to Google. We had a December review, but this is going to be the overall year review for 2006. Disclaimer: this year in review is only going to be for June to December
full storyGoogle Being Sued … Again
Google, fresh from its $90 million settlement, is being sued for click fraud in another class action lawsuit, this one filed in Pennsylvania federal district court, Google Watch has learned. The proposed class action — the third this year — was filed on behalf of several hundred Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents, and accuses Google of exposing publishers to click fraud following a breach of contract, negligence, unjust enrichment and
full storyStruggling to Fight Off KinderStart.com
As many know, KinderStart.com sued Google quite a while back over having their website PageRank set to “zero”. This drop in traffic caused the company to lose a lot of money, therefore wanting to sue Google to gain that traffic back. As many also know, PageRank is given to most sites, not all. It takes a very bad site to not be indexed by Google or
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