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Originally Posted by crankydave
Peter...
Whether or not they allow sites to "compete" for it or not really doesn't matter. The fact is the up to 3 of the very first results that a searcher is delivered are paid for.
Because they are paid for, because they are the very first results a searcher sees, the results the searcher is being delivered are affected by paid links. All of the other sites below those paid links are being affected by them.
Google doesn't want "paid" links to affect what they deliver to the searcher yet they do it themselves.
Dave
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This is a logical conclusion.
Don't get me wrong; I do agree that Google has the right to run their business this way if they choose. I am simply aware of the irony of the situation.
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Originally Posted by mjtaylor
Well, since you asked *me* ... if I could fix it myself, I would, but if I couldn't (or it was taking a long time) and I thought I had enough power to influence millions to fix it for me, I would probably try ... but the question is: would that be ethical?  |
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Originally Posted by crankydave
Hehehehe... Thanx MJ.
If you couldn't? It's your business. Your business model.
Dave
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Well, perhaps I am not as smart as I think I am.
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Originally Posted by Feydakin
And this is what confuses me the most about your side of the argument.. How can you NOT see what one has to do with the other?? There has been study after study done to show that as many as 70% of Google's users have no idea that those top links are paid for.. They think that they are part of the normal natural search results..
And Google goes even further by doing their own studies and research to make that area even more clickable by playing with colors..
If this was "really" about have pure search results they would not be muddying up the waters with advertising above the natural results..
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Also good points.
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Originally Posted by kgun
Now I do not follow your argument,
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My argument (and I don't mean to be contentious) is that Google created PageRank and then published it so that webmasters could see it on a toolbar; this lead to the trading of text links (both reciprocal and paid) to boost
PR and raise SERP positions. Google came to feel that it muddied their organic results, and well you know the rest. An easy way to eradicate the problem would be to stop letting us know what the
PR is on any given page. I can't sell you my
PR if I can't show you I have it.
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Originally Posted by kgun
I wish all of you that read these posts a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.
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Now, that's way off topic,
but hey, I don't want to be a
! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, too, Kgun, and to All, Whatever You Celebrate, May it be Joyous!
Cheers, MJ