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JQ
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Joined: Mar 11, 2001
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Posted: 2006-Jul-14 20:20
Thought this was pretty interesting.
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Judge dismisses suit over Google ranking
A California judge on Thursday dismissed a Web site's lawsuit against Google over its fall in the Google search index, but left the door open for the lawsuit to be amended and refiled.
KinderStart, a directory and search engine for information related to children, sued Google in March after it fell to a "zero" ranking in the Google index. The lawsuit claimed that by lowering KinderStart's site in its PageRank system, Google had engaged in "pervasive monopolistic practices" that led to the denial of the site's free speech rights, prevention and destruction of competition, and predatory pricing, among nine counts total.
As a result of the drop in ranking, traffic and monthly page views to KinderStart's Web site fell 70 percent or more and the company's revenue from advertisements through Google's AdSense syndication program fell by more than 80 percent, according to the lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel for the Northern District in San Jose dismissed all nine claims, saying that KinderStart's claims were insufficient or failed to allege facts or conduct to support that the claims or were too vague.
KinderStart plans to amend and re-file the complaint and is looking for others to join in a class action suit.
More info can be found in Eric Goldman's blog:
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Jul-14 20:51
Total BS on their part, I now think. I was originally on the fence (maybe a smidge supportive), but in hindsight, I think it's hogwash.
If I do something which doesn't comply witht he current rules, I hold the person who changed the rule s accountable.
Right - like I have zero responsibility to keep up to date and manage things from my end within the boundries.
Cop out...
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bhartzer
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Posted: 2006-Jul-14 21:01
I still think it's all a PR ploy (public relations, not PageRank) just to get more visibility for that site. Have you noticed how many links they have now? The site used to be a PageRank 3 and then it went to zero. At one point it was a PageRank 7. Still PR0 now, though.
And not to mention the number of backlinks it has now...around 22,000. All you need to do is sue Google and get tons of links...
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