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Yep, they were spamming and deserved what they got. The point of my comment is that Google is not to be trusted at face value. They have lost that privilege. I
by wmeredith 12y ago
Yep, they were spamming and deserved what they got. The point of my comment is that Google is not to be trusted at face value. They have lost that privilege. In this case, the company that got blacklisted screwed up and you can prove it by looking at their link profile. So Google did no wrong here in my eyes.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoOn the other hand, if I'd realized I'd be starting a Google hate train with my original comment, I wouldn't have commented. My question was strictly about this particular case. No company is perfect. There have been a few distasteful decisions from Google, but every company has had those. And besides, Google could be far more evil than it has been. We should probably give them the benefit of the doubt unless there is some strong evidence.
- wmeredith 12y ago>>Google could be far more evil than it has been. This is the bar they have to clear? Pretty low standards if you ask me.
- magicalist 12y agoYes, Google "scraping" search snippets (using wikipedia as an example even though it's CC-BY-SA!), which has been a feature of google forever and has been ruled as fair use on multiple occasions, is a much better standard.