____/ BearItAll on Friday 13 July 2007 11:27 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Oz watchdog accuses Google of misleading public
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | An ACCC statement says it is seeking declarations from both Google and
>> | Trading Post that they breached the Trade Practices Act, as well as an
>> | injunction "restraining Google from publishing search results that do
>> | not expressly distinguish advertisements from organic search results".
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/12/accc_sues_google/
>>
>> Can we please also have 'articles' (media placements) and forum posts from
>> Microsoft's astroturfers and shills tagged appropriately?
>
> That is a bit daft, I have changed my mind, it is a lot daft, I don't want
> you to think I am in any way anti-aussie just because they bought our local
> brewries and totally destroyed the beer. Turning Newcastle brown and others
> into pure chemical mixes with manufactured alchohol. Beer in Aus must be
> really horrible is all I can say. Thank goodness they haven't bought
> Theakstons yet.
>
> But if you have a seach engine that gets much of its content by trawling,
> how can they distinguish between those items trawled from commercial sites
> and those from non-commercial. Almost all web sites are advertising
> something.
>
> But I suspect this beer wrecking aussie means she wants to better
> distinguish between sponsored commercial sites and other results. Isn't the
> whole point of a search to get you the information you are looking for? I
> would have thought that it is, so does it matter if the results include a
> mix of commercial and noncommercial? Nothing on google pages forces or
> tricks you into clicking a sponsored link.
>
> To me the main reasons that Google is successful is that it does this
> extremely well. You get sponsered results as well as nonSponsered results
> that are relevant to your search. I use sponsered results on google, it
> works because you get what you are looking for, nearly every company on my
> list of prefered companies/contacts have come from a google search followed
> by a successfull company relationship.
>
> So this ausie who like fellow ausies no doubt makes beer with a spatular and
> a couple of bags of powder mixed with tap water and topped up with a
> alchohol created in a labratory, is talking pants in my humble oppinion.
>
> Actually it isn't really very humble, its its what ever the
> opposite of humble is.
I disagree with on this one. I happen to hate brainwash, even if it comes
wrapped in that blanket which people call "adverts" or "commercials".
Microsoft has a top result for many Linux related searches, but why? Do they
provide truthful information? Then again, a lot of Google search results are
SEO-ed or spammed for, which is why Wikia works on alternative. The whole
search biz is a bit of a mystery and a mess. I trust Wikipedia more than I
trust Google and I only use Google for things I cannot find in Wikipedia.
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