How come Google doesn't punish MoneySupermarket?

What do you mean when you say they were "buying links"? Do you mean they were paying to advertise?

That was, maybe, before Google changed their regulations. Where did you get the information from?

What type of sites were they buying links from?

You're right. Google does not give one iota about valuable websites that deserve to be online, serve a purpose, are popular, a real business, etc.

What google hates, is idiotic IMers and their lame @$$ websites built for no reason than to do more lame @$$ IM by figuring out ways to shmooze google.

If you had a real business, perhaps you too would spend thousands of dollars on promotion.

Amazon essentially pays for millions of links by offering commissions. So, google is going to de-index amazon? Idiotic thinking.

If people actually had a real business, spent time and money on it, they would not have to worry about what google is doing with other sites.

So funny that Imers shmoozing google complain about other sites shmoozing google.

SEO is not dead, but maybe, just maybe IM crapola will die.

Paul

Money Supermarket is a real business. You clearly didn't bother to take a look at how well they've;

- built their content
- structured their website
- how much of a social presence they have
- and they've done their links right ie

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anch...rmarket.com%2F

The way I see it is, Google don't touch the companies who have the means to sue them. Being de-indexed from Google actually opens up the possibility to sue them in a court of law. You would argue that Google is giving your competition an unfair advantage by not displaying your website. It has happened before, although I'm not sure of the outcome.

The UK Government right now is accusing Google of a lot of manipulation with their search results. Google may be a service, and a business, but they have to act in the best interests of their customers, which means that deindexing a site such as Moneysupermarket would be unfeasible for them.

From there, Moneysupermarket could bring a lawsuit and claim that Google have tarnished their reputation, ruined their income and stopped their customers from visiting their site through search methods.

Me and you don't have the means to even talk to a lawyer about taking Google to court, nevermind actually doing it.

I think it was quite a big deal at the time how they were manipulating search engines. I think they even had link buyers on popular webmaster forums like Digital Point and others. Yes they are a very good site and help millions of people make better decisions, but still, I just feel big names get away with search violations.