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Sounds to me like there is no indexing of said site done by search engines, or if there is, it's getting black holed for one reason or another. You'd need infor
by salawat 4y ago
Sounds to me like there is no indexing of said site done by search engines, or if there is, it's getting black holed for one reason or another. You'd need information on how they configure their DMZ in terms of visibility to search crawlers, as well as logs that make evident whether they were crawled or not.
If they were crawled, but dropped from the index, it's possibly a free speech thing. There is no law that says Google must index a site. If there's paper trail that unveils an intentional decision not to prop up a competitor by intentionally dropping them out of search results in favor of their own offering, then we'll probably see a dilemma created tensionwise in terms of 1st Amendment rights of Google vs. Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Only way to know for sure is eDiscovery. And I'm fairly certain any Jury that has to weigh Google's behavior is going to get pointed out to them the magnitude of spend Google has done to create the appearance of not being anti-competitive, and Google's defense is going to make it a case of the Government/their competitor trying to force something out of them, poor innocent of Google, subsidiary of Alphabet.