The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law 60
pasquafa writes "Here is a very smart article on the future of search engine legal controversies. Let's just say that the Google book search is just the start of the problems! Google
thinks it's a newspaper and wants First Amendment protection to do whatever it pleases."
Re:Google 'Transparency' (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Google 'Transparency' (Score:2, Informative)
What you should do is hire a competent web site builder. They should take care of making your site look good, both with regards to technical validity and usability. Only when your site actually is good, then Google has a fair chance of judging if it deserves a high ranking. As soon as you try to make your site look more important than it is, a search engine has no choice by regarding it as noise and degrade its ranking.
Google, and any other search engine, stand and fall with its users' trust in its ability to judge page quality fairly. If the users get a feeling that the search results may be influenced by something else than their actual relevance to their search query, then they will go to another search engine.
Re:Google 'Transparency' (Score:5, Informative)
So, no they are not evil, they may be better informed than an average web design company with regard to what to do and what not to do when it comes to a website that you would like to be indexed (all flash site with no indexable text? utterly standards un-compliant code? all your content 90% of the way down the page if you look at the source? Not a good idea.). A decent web designer should be all you need though, but then they tend to be more expensive than many of the $50 a site designers out there.
Like what? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Google 'Transparency' (Score:3, Informative)
Look up Webmaster Tools. http://www.google.com/webmasters/ [google.com]
Look up Sitemaps, and look up Analytics. http://www.google.com/analytics [google.com]
Disclaimer: I work for Google but I am not speaking for them officially here... just trying to spread some useful information!