They are suing Google because they don't like what appears on the top search results

RyanHend

14 years ago

They won't win. It is a ridiculous lawsuit that should be thrown out the moment it is filed.

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Steven Miranda

14 years ago

What a crazy lawsuit but I am not that surprised because nowdays people sue someone for looking at them the wrong way. People are too sensitive.

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BloggingPro 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Miranda

What a crazy lawsuit but I am not that surprised because nowdays people sue someone for looking at them the wrong way. People are too sensitive.

Did you just tell me I was too sensitive? In a public forum? I know YOU didn't say my name, but I am PEOPLE, so what is your address, you are going to he be hearing from my lawyer buster!

lol... I was going to PM, but figured there would be more dramatic effect if I just posted in here!
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Intrepreneur

14 years ago

I think it's MORE fair for the company's website to appear higher than Wikipedia, and I think in fairness Google SHOULD think this too. After-all it's their company the people are searching for.

Though the lawsuit is probably senseless and it won't go their way.

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Wechito 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Intrepreneur

After-all it's their company the people are searching for.

Not necessarily. Some people might not been searching for the camping but for the accident that happened there.
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WhamSoft

14 years ago

Interesting topic.

Filing a law suit against Google is clearly not the answer and the wikipedia article is not the only issue. If you search for the term from Google UK you'll see countless news articles and also a few graphic pictures of the accident.

If I were running this company I would seriously consider a change of name, and re branding of the company because the name and the accident appear to be permanently linked to each other and both good and bad results will always be shown for any related keyword search.

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Wechito

14 years ago

Originally Posted by WhamSoft

Interesting topic.

Filing a law suit against Google is clearly not the answer and the wikipedia article is not the only issue. If you search for the term from Google UK you'll see countless news articles and also a few graphic pictures of the accident.

If I were running this company I would seriously consider a change of name, and re branding of the company because the name and the accident appear to be permanently linked to each other and both good and bad results will always be shown for any related keyword search.

Lee

This is what I think. Google is not responsible for their lack of marketing skills.

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LMC

14 years ago

This is retarded.

Excuse my language but #$&*ing go to the wikipedia page and "edit" it, to display both the positive and negative of the location.

I hate peoples ignorance

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by LMC

This is retarded.

Excuse my language but #$&*ing go to the wikipedia page and "edit" it, to display both the positive and negative of the location.

I hate peoples ignorance

There you go, using your head. They can't win a nice settlement if they do that. Not that they will for attempting litigation against Google. In my opinion the case has no basis.

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DanDasilva15YearOldIM

14 years ago

Is this really a surprise for you people? This is what the world has boiled down to...

Maybe I should contact them and sell them some SEO.

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timpears

14 years ago

The stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me.

This is so typical of people now a days. They haven't done any SEO to speak of, and so they blame Google for their poor showing in the SERP.

My answer to this, get off your lazy butt and do some SEO, or as one poster stated, change the damn name of your company.

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Targeted Traffic

14 years ago

Originally Posted by timpears

The stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me.

This is so typical of people now a days. They haven't done any SEO to speak of, and so they blame Google for their poor showing in the SERP.

My answer to this, get off your lazy butt and do some SEO, or as one poster stated, change the damn name of your company.

Definitely do agree! they should do some ass kicking SEO!

It's human nature...pointing your finger to others for any mishaps...Adam started it all...

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Martin Luxton

14 years ago

I think there is another side to this.

Els Alfacs was a one-off accident caused by an exploding gas truck. OK, fine, they should do some SEO and/or rebrand, but their stance is that it wasn't their fault so why should they be damned for all time?

Which brings us to the other side of the coin. What about people/companies who use SEO to hide their wrongdoings? Should we expect Google to have any social responsibility built into their rankings?

Google results for James Arthur Ray show his website at number one and his Wikipedia entry at number two before we come to a couple of videos about his conviction for negligent homicide.

If you Google 'BP' all you will find about the gulf oil spill on the first 3 pages is a couple of short one-line entries.

So, for those of you being derogatory about this Spanish camping site, if a scammer or hater ever hurts you and this is facilitated by their great SEO skills, remember this thread.

Martin

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Wechito

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Martin Luxton

I think there is another side to this.

Els Alfacs was a one-off accident caused by an exploding gas truck. OK, fine, they should do some SEO and/or rebrand, but their stance is that it wasn't their fault so why should they be damned for all time?

Martin

We do not have control over the 100% of our lives and some times we are victims of external events that we can not control. When this happens you have two options:

-Self-pity and passive attitude
-Be proactive and work to get over it

Many people choose the first option because it seems to be the easiest solution and then they realize that this has consequences and try to get others to solve their problems.

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Vlad Romanov

14 years ago

If I was Google I would manually remove their website from the rankings after they lose the lawsuit... Now that is something the can easily do!

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Sonny Am

14 years ago

I too think this is a tad ridiculous. But i can understand the companies reasoning. It must be incredibly stressful to have built a website and to expect it to rank higher because you have little knowledge of seo.

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DanielDeus

14 years ago

Or alternatively we could all club together and get some backlinks with the keyword "Els Alfacs" to their site and get them to number one in Google quickly - if only to see their lawyer stand up in court and just say "Ahh... err... actually... Nothing!" and have to sit down again

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dotgirish

14 years ago

Instead of suing he could have got a good WSO and get him ranked first .. that would be a wise choice ..

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Oranges

14 years ago

lol Algorism sounds like Orgasm in OP's post.
That was hilarious!

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mrdanilodiaz

14 years ago

I myself don't like what appears on the top of search engine. I can easily be manipulated by SEO experts.

Google's believe that a high quality article or website will naturally get backlinks.

The truth is, most high quality sites are being shared using twitter, facebook, etc., which is no follow. When people share a good article, they use anchor text that are clearly non keyword rich like "click here".

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Gee S

14 years ago

If the money they spend on legal fees was put into SEO instead they'd probably dominate that term and probably countless others.

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The Wizard of Oz

14 years ago

How insane! Anyone with half-a-brain would re-brand the park under these circumstances. If they win this stupid court-case, I'll be next in line to sue Google for not putting my sites at #1 in the searches. (Yeah right!)

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SUPER Louie

14 years ago

Really absurd. This is similar to the girl who sued McDonald's for not putting a label 'Caution Hot' in her coffee

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rosetrees 14 years ago

Originally Posted by siocowiz

Really absurd. This is similar to the girl who sued McDonald's for not putting a label 'Caution Hot' in her coffee

and she WON
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LMC 14 years ago

Originally Posted by siocowiz

Really absurd. This is similar to the girl who sued McDonald's for not putting a label 'Caution Hot' in her coffee

Yea but she won... and won a lot.

She changed the labeling market forever
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- sadiecopywriter 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by LMC
  
  Yea but she won... and won a lot.
  
  She changed the labeling market forever
  
  Actually, I've met one of the people involved with that case at a party once. That one really wasn't as silly as this one sounds.
  
  McDonald's had already been warned several times about having faulty caps on their cups. They kept giving out the faulty caps because they were already paid for and they figured it didn't matter. They also superheated their coffee way past the boiling point so that if any part of your skin touched it would be burned instantly. Superheating it was easier than trying to keep it at normal temperature for hours on end.
  
  I wonder if there's not more to this story too. We all know the media rarely tells the whole truth.
  
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  tim_benedict 14 years ago
  
  Now if the Spanish company involved has been in existence longer than the accident has been news, I guess I could see some concern about not re-branding. But if not, that was strike one-bad choice of brand names. Strike two was blaming Google for their own poor choice of branding. Strike three? Not doing good SEO of their own, for ANY search engine. Boot them. They're out.
  
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  John Hocking 14 years ago
  
  Wikipedia articles are often at the top of the search results.
  
  They benefit from being part of site with over 23,000 pages indexed and thousands of backlinks.
  
  Being ranked high for your term is not a right or a guarantee.
  
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provenmarketingorg

14 years ago

Yes it seems a bit silly, but it really is annoying how wikipedia seems to get such high preferences, when it is so easy to have extremely biased trolls editing out anything controversial to fix the conventional 'status quo' mold. Its really being shown to much ranking and its sad not to have a more balanced choice of views at the top

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GeorgR.

14 years ago

You don't sue google, you hire what is called a "reputation management firm".

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CurtisSWN

14 years ago

Actually, I was thinking of suing Google for not sending enough traffic to my website...

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