The company almost seems to base its business plan on stepping into legal trouble (Katie Hafner, New York Times, Oct. 19).
“We’re Google. So Sue Us”
The company almost seems to base its business plan on stepping into legal trouble (Katie Hafner, New York Times, Oct. 19).
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The Kinderstart complaint is funny. Google appears to have told them why their site’s weighting was changed. All Kinderstart needed to do was fix that problem (allowing links in user comments.)
Kinderstart could even fix the problem by making the user comment pages unsearchable by search engines (i.e. the robots.txt file).
Instead, they’ve decided to sue. And, somehow, Google is the bad guy. If Kinderstart were that concerned about appearing on Google’s search list, they could simply pay Google to advertise them.
I like that last comment about Google being the “Government of the Internet.” Google is a search engine and advertiser. Saying Google is the Government of the Internet is the same as saying that the phonebook is the Government of the telephone system.
I can’t help but marvel at the text at the bottom of the NYT story. There at the end of the page is the set of links from Ads by Google.