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Now about BMW's bad web design…
Yesterday's news that Google has blacklisted BMW.de because the site's deceived its spiders caused some in the pro-privacy and online rights movement to balk about Google arrogance in acting as judge, jury and executioner.
Who is Google, some asked, to decide which site to exclude for some violation of a Google made code of conduct.
To put it in Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny's words: "Oh, cry me a river!"
Google's index is owned by Google. The service makes it very clear that websites should present its spiders with the same data that they server to visitors. This policy will help users get relevant search results, not having it creates an incentive for website owners to include irrelevant keywords.
If you disagree with Google's policies, you can use a competing search engine. Or build one yourself and drive Google out of business because your index holds better search results than Google's.
photo: Hazel Brown
Tags: bmw, google, web spam, search engine optimization
February 7, 2006 at 06:01 PM | Permalink
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