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The other comments claim it's deliberate. I'm not sure. Google are pretty adamant that they don't manually edit results. And it's at least possible that most r
by verbify 10y ago
The other comments claim it's deliberate. I'm not sure. Google are pretty adamant that they don't manually edit results. And it's at least possible that most references to search engines in news articles and the like reference alternatives to Google. Google is the kleenex of search engines - it's so synonymous that people forget that kleenex is a kind of tissue.
- lilbobbytables 10y agoCan confirm: kleenex is not on the first two pages for 'tissues'.
- jaypaulynice 10y agoBut they can control the content of the page. I looked at the source page and there is 0 mention of "search engine" on Google.com source page. I'm pretty sure Google works contextually to know "search engine" means searching the web. Gogoduck does have the reference 5 times in the source code but Bing doesn't. Gogoduck can take the chance with their content to be the first, but if the leading search engines were to sue or act against Gogoduck, then it would be in Gogoduck's favor to get the spotlight. If you go to Google to find Gogoduck then Google is of course the more valuable.
- nerdponx 10y agoDoes Google still use PageRank at all? If so it would make sense that not many people actually link to "google.com"