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Web Site Files Complaint Against Google
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| March 17, 2006
| MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Posted on 03/17/2006 5:40:36 PM PST by grundle
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posted on
03/17/2006 5:40:40 PM PST
by
grundle
To: grundle
Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index. So? Nobody has a right to be listed by a private company. It might suck, but what law could google have broken?
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posted on
03/17/2006 5:43:19 PM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Rodney King
Considering they contribute to Democrats, who cares what law they broke?
To: grundle
Do your part to fight communism - don't google,
clusty and
alltheweb instead!
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posted on
03/17/2006 5:46:18 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
To: the anti-liberal
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posted on
03/17/2006 5:48:01 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
To: Rodney King
It might suck, but what law could google have broken?It's a civil suit. They don't have to have broken any laws. The contention is KinderStart alleges Google has engaged in anticompetitive behavior and misled the public by positioning its search engine as an objective source for finding Internet content.
To: grundle
Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites
It's not mysterious. Someone hasn't read about PageRank.
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posted on
03/17/2006 5:57:40 PM PST
by
Terpfen
(72-25: The Democrats mounted a failibuster!)
To: Rodney King
The Michelin guides appear to favor French cuisine. Mickey D should lawyer up and go for it.
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posted on
03/17/2006 5:59:55 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
(islam is a mutant meme)
To: grundle
I used to love Google. but, they've jumped the shark.Still, if you're having a specific problem with a Microsoft product, don't bother searching for the answer at Microsoft.com. Thier site search engine is the worst on the internet.
You have to go to Google, type in the specific problem and add "Microsoft.com" on the end.
You'll get the right page at Microsoft.com every time.
To: Rodney King
This is not a crime here but an alleged tortuous act. This is a lawsuit and not a criminal case.
When one takes out liability insurance one is insuring against claims that one's own negligence or inaction has caused another individual tortuous injury. Automobile insurance and home owner's liability insurance is an example.
The plaintiffs allege that Google has caused them injury. If Google is essential for a person's business to survive then Google becomes an "essential facility". Google is then liable for the plaintiff's loss.
Do not worry, though, Google has billions of dollars ready to pay the very best lawyers and buy the most powerful politicians.
I am not a lawyer. This is not advice but an answer to your question.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:09:47 PM PST
by
Iris7
(Dare to be pigheaded! Stubborn! "Tolerance" is not a virtue!)
To: grundle
This is pure B.S. That web site has very bad HTML coding. No meta tags. 'Nuff said from me.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:13:02 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
(Matthew 7:1 through 6)
To: ex-Texan
This is pure B.S. That web site has very bad HTML coding. No meta tags. 'Nuff said from me.With all due respect, there are plenty of examples of web sites with bad or no meta tags, terrible layout and amateurish html that consistently rank in the top ten.
Meta Tags have very little of the value they once had when it comes to rankings. There are many other factors involved now. Site design (badly written html) has little to do with ranking unless the design prohibits easy site navigation.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:18:51 PM PST
by
technomage
(NEVER underestimate the depths to which liberals will stoop for power.)
To: technomage
With all due respect, meta tags are essential for ranking any web page. Here is that
web page. Take a peek at the coding yourself. There are no key words listed.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:23:32 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
(Matthew 7:1 through 6)
To: Iris7
You are right of course, but I still don't think they should be sued over it.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:24:33 PM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: ex-Texan
With all due respect, meta tags are essential for ranking any web page. Again, with all due respect, meta tags have little to do with page rankings now. Content is king, links from various similar web sites are very important, no flash, updating content in a timely manner. These are very important to page ranking once Google releases your site from the sand box.
Meta tags are still looked at, they just have a much smaller influence on rankings than they did just 3-4 years ago, at least for Google rankings.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:28:52 PM PST
by
technomage
(NEVER underestimate the depths to which liberals will stoop for power.)
To: Rodney King
You are right of course, but I still don't think they should be sued over it. Anybody can sue anyone for anything... THe likelyhood of winnig is sorely diminised based on the lawsuit though.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:29:46 PM PST
by
smith288
(http://angryprogrammer.typepad.com)
To: the anti-liberal
To: the anti-liberal
I agree. I have stopped using Google and switched to Clusty. Probably giving up something, but I'll use the Googster in a pinch.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:32:47 PM PST
by
nygoose
To: Lancey Howard
"I only use Clusty!"
Good man! We need more like you!
Eventually google will feel the pinch (maybe, if they're anything like the average liberal socialist, reality will have little effect upon them).
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:34:21 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
To: ex-Texan
With all due respect, meta tags are essential for ranking any web page. If they were used in their originally-intended way, then yes
But what happened was that wise-guys would spam their meta-tags with all sorts of irrelevant key words in the hopes of getting people to come to their web page (even though the web page had no content that was actually relevant to what the user was looking for).
Google is used because users are able to find what they are looking for. If they find that sites they would have wanted to find are not listed on google, or their searches turn up too many irrelevant sites, they will start using some other search engine that gives them better results. This is why google has an incentive to "blacklist" sites that try to spam their way into peoples search results
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:40:54 PM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the hubris to think they will be the planners)
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