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If Google decided tomorrow that Quora and Pinterest is spam and should basically never be in the top 10 results pages, couldn’t they just fix it? What’s the wor
by alkonaut 6y ago
If Google decided tomorrow that Quora and Pinterest is spam and should basically never be in the top 10 results pages, couldn’t they just fix it? What’s the worst that could happen?
- mianos 6y agoThey would be sued. Pinterest and Quora don't actually care that their actions make the web crappy for us all. They would stand on their high horses and complain that google is treating them unfairly. Normally I would assume this problem is because all the cool kids at google are working on more interesting problems but in this case I honestly believe they can't make a change for the betterment of the majority of their users.
- alkonaut 6y agoDoes google have a legal obligation to be fair or transparent? I thought what made google tick was the army of manual and arbitrary blacklisting where SEO cheating like e.g showing a full article to the google bot and a “subscribe to read the full article” to everyone else was way over the line that could lead to a ban
- summerlight 6y agoDoJ, which is in charge of the on-going antitrust lawsuit against Google, will be very excited about that change.