Google Allowing Misrepresented Result Snippets

I've asked Google if it's a "sneaky redirect" per their webmaster guidelines to send some users to a registration page that does not contain the words available in the search results page snippet (the words you searched for).

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Sirius and XM Consolidate

Ahh, yes, I will jump on the bandwagon and talk about Sirius and XM merging. No, not so I too can get on the top of TechMeme (it’s too late to play that game, if you want to get to the top of TechMeme you’ve got to be early, or you’ve got to say something interesting about the news, like Doc Searls did). Since I’m…

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Minimum Bids Gave AdWords Users Fits

Google said the problem with minimum bids skyrocketing after routine maintenance had nothing to do with adjustments to how Quality Score is calculated.

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Less Than

Call it premature, a key indicator, or room for some great developer to still bust this space wide open, but Google is by far the undisputed champ of online collaborative productivity tools since October '06 -- five months ago. According to Nielsen//NetRatings' MegaPanel, Google Docs and Spreadsheet users, all 445,762 of them, represent 92 percent of online collaborative productivity tool users.

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Cerf: Cell Phones To Drive Internet Growth

There are about 5.5 billion people on the planet. Roughly 2.5 billion of them use cell phones. Only 1.1 billion surf the Web. So when Vinton G. Cerf, who currently serves as Google’s vice president, states that mobile phones will fuel the growth of the Internet, well . . . maybe we should believe him. “The mobile phone has become an important factor in the…

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