Put Your Cleats On Google!
In a recent SitePoint Tribune E-mail, one of the articles talks about how Google has started their decent down a “slippery slope” with doctored search results.
For a search engine to provide as its top free “result” a link to a competitive service (that the search engine company owns) is just plain rude — it goes against everything search engines should aim for. If a search engine works to manipulate searchers away from the items they’re actually looking for, well, I think it’s just started down a slippery slope.
What do you think? Should it be okay for search engines like AOL, MSN, Yahoo! and Google, that are also content providers to push their own products in search results? Is it okay if it’s boldly displayed as an advertisement and not a search result?
Let us know in our newest poll below and in the sidebar.
POSTED IN: AOL, Business, Emerging Earth, Google, MSN, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo
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