Google's Internet search rankings under investigation by Texas attorney general

[Istvan Horvath]

Interesting read:
Google's Internet search rankings under investigation by Texas attorney general | Markets | Headline News | Canadian Business Online

[patadeperro]

Dear Istvan, I am not playing Google advocate at all, but I have seen how one of the most important parameters to win the SEO or PPC "war" is how relevant your ad is for the surfer (PPC) and how long the surfer stays in your page (SEO) furthermore I think that Google is jut giving to the people more of what they are looking for, how can be that biased? just wondering, thanks for sharing

[bgmacaw]

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[Quentin]

The pecking order of those results can make or break websites because Google's search engine processes about two-thirds of the search requests in the U.S. and handles even more volume in some parts of the world.

A company that depends on Google for their whole business is just stupid and I am pretty sure thats what the courts will say also.

Quentin

[4morereferrals]

Originally Posted by Quentin

The pecking order of those results can make or break websites because Google's search engine processes about two-thirds of the search requests in the U.S. and handles even more volume in some parts of the world.

A company that depends on Google for their whole business is just stupid and I am pretty sure thats what the courts will say also.

Quentin

You obviously have little experience with US courts.

How does a company with zillions in assets and revenues have such SH!t customer and tech support ?

With great power also comes greater responsibility ...

Google plays by their own rules and they determine fairplay on the fly as it suits them.

When company A gets their adwords account slammed shut - and competitor B gets to rock on, doing the same exact things, at the demise of company A and company A has zero recourse .. cannot ask questions of a human being, as to why his business was shuttered on Google ...

When their big ticket advertisers pages quit showing up in the organic serps with absolute crap for content and a buy it now button - then we'll know Google cares a little more about the "searcher" than they do shareholders equity ... until then they are just the same old $$$ grubbing whores as anyone else


They've set themselves up to be ripe for a fall. Fall they will.

[rosetrees]

It's interesting how results on different search engines vary. A relatively new site of mine is half way down page 8 of google for its search term.

It's no 1 on p1 of Yahoo UK!!!

Sadly - not a lot of people use Yahoo as a search engine.