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Comment by megablast

15 years ago

Maybe you have never heard of the anti-trust investigation into Google, where various sites have suggest Google manipulate their index already.

A search engine's function is site discrimination.

  • This does not mean that every kind of discrimination is equally good. Dunking a site by an algorithm (sensible disclaimers apply) looks much better in court than a decision made by a human. The latter is vulnerable to questioning based on (supposed) hidden motives.