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>it's bad for Google, and most importantly bad for Google's users BS. What's good for Google is showing people that if you engage in bad practices your shit w
by owenmarshall 13y ago
>it's bad for Google, and most importantly bad for Google's users
BS.
What's good for Google is showing people that if you engage in bad practices your shit will get nuked from orbit, even if your site is better than the competitors.
You'd better believe that companies are going to avoid blackhat SEO in the future after this, and that's absolutely in Google's interests.
- hobs 13y agoYeah, it would only be actually "bad" for google if people were switching search engines en masse because they couldn't find the lyrics they wanted. I think that anyone who characterizes google as needing one site over needing people to not blackhat will find that google really doesn't need said site. (Maybe Wikipedia is an exception to this rule?)
- zorpner 13y agoMore specifically, companies are going to avoid entering markets (e.g. online lyrics databases) where Google has demonstrated an unwillingness to appropriately punish established players who use the same black hat practices, since it's impossible to compete in the organic rankings against them.
- owenmarshall 13y ago>an unwillingness to appropriately punish established players Can you find another example of the other lyrics sites pushing a quid pro quo scheme on Twitter? The other lyrics sites might be scummy and Google doesn't care -- or they might just cover their tracks enough to avoid giving Google enough proof to hang them.
- cycrutchfield 13y ago"it's impossible to compete in the organic rankings against them." Isn't that precisely what rapgenius had done (affiliate linkscam notwithstanding)? They were already the top result for many lyrics queries, they just got greedy
- Harj 13y agoWhat's good for Google is doing what made them successful, providing the best search results. We now know one type of search they're no longer doing that for.