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Google Gives Itself a Slap in the Face

by LiamP
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This is pretty funny. First Google buys another web company beatthatquote (nothing unusual there).
Google buys BeatThatQuote | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Turns out that website had done it all - comment spam, PR link buying, doorway pages etc
Google Being Spammers? Will Google Penalize Google for Google Spamming Google

So it was forced to slap itself
Google Bans Itself Again By Banning BeatThatQuote.com
#face #google #slap
  • Profile picture of the author bfas
    That's too funny - but at least you know they don't play 'favorites'!

    Michael
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    • Profile picture of the author LiamP
      Originally Posted by bfas View Post

      That's too funny - but at least you know they don't play 'favorites'!

      Michael
      They had no choice I think, otherwise their credibility would be zero.

      It does raise some interesting questions such as -
      Did they check for violations of their own guidelines before they bought it? If they didn't , why not? If they did, why did they buy it and why didn't they slap it straight away?
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