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› if Google doesn't like a website, it can derank it If Google actually does that, they're asking for an anti-trust suit.
by c3534l 9y ago
› if Google doesn't like a website, it can derank it
If Google actually does that, they're asking for an anti-trust suit.
- greglindahl 9y agoGoogle does this all the time, has been sued a few times, and has yet to lose.
- ceejayoz 9y agoNo, they're not. Kinderstart v. Google for one of many examples.
- c3534l 9y agoThat case had to do with whether page rank itself is anticompetitive. Their page wasn't arbitrary "deranked", the company just didn't like the algorithm. As the judge noted, Kinderstart failed to even identify the market Google was competing with them in. I was responding to the assertions that Google removes pages from their search results without reason or method.