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Re: Companies Subvert Search Results to Squelch Criticism

Barry Margolin (barmar@alum.mit.edu)
Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:38:37 -0400

In article <telecom24.265.10@telecom-digest.org>, Steve Sobol
<sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

> Monty Solomon wrote:

>> It's not illegal, but it's SEO gone bad. Companies such as Quixtar are
>> using Google-bombing, link farms and Web spam pages to place positive
>> sites in the top search results -- which pushes the negative ones
>> down.

> Yeah, and there may be no laws against it, but if it's done on a large
> enough basis you can bet they'll get sued.

On what grounds?

Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: They don't need any 'grounds'. 'Grounds'
only belong to coffee you have prepared. When large organizations,
i.e. film and recording industries do not get their way, they _always_
file suit; it costs them virtually nothing, where it costs small web
site owners and regular users a slight fortune to defend themselves
against frivilous lawsuits, which is what such a lawsuit (as manipulating
a search engine) would be. PAT]

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