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SEO Goggles - December 2006

Yahoo to Google: Stuff It!

December 2nd 2006 19:12

Google likes to step on toes. The leading search engine has been known some time now as the new "evil" company, and a recent attempt to bitch slap Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft leaves little room for question on the level of evil the company portrays.

As Google prepares to head into a high profile copyright infringement suit over its mission to index copyrighted material, the company is planning, or at least it wanted to try to drag rivals into the battle with it.

As a side note, if I ever switch search engines this is the kind of thing that will make me do it.

Anyway, As Google gathers evidence for its case, the company has subpoenaed Amazon.com, Yahoo and Microsoft, among others.

Last month Amazon.com gave Google the bird, claiming they were after Amazon's company trade secrets. Now Yahoo has followed that vibe and has rebuffed Google with a big "hell no".

It's good to see companies like Amazon and Yahoo stand up to Google. Someone has to do it.

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Comment by Eric

December 2nd 2006 19:30

Mal Gadget

By the way... the New York Times link for this story is broken. If anyone knows where I can get the right link please let me know.

-Eric

Comment by pegasus

December 2nd 2006 20:19

Poker Addict

I think this may be the link: Yahoo Rebuffs Google on Digital Books

Ironically, I used Google to find it. LOL

Comment by Eric

December 2nd 2006 20:26

Mal Gadget

I had that one. That is the one I got the original story from. But I found this story through an e-mail link to another article that went a little deeper into the details.

Thanks for that link though! I should have added that into the post.

Comment by pegasus

December 2nd 2006 20:29

Poker Addict

dumb question: what does SEO mean?

Comment by Eric

December 2nd 2006 20:34

Mal Gadget

SEO = Search Engine Optimization

Comment by Ahmed

December 2nd 2006 23:29

techy.Bytes
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Please excuse my ill-informed ill-structured opinion, but I think google rocks and all the other companies can go suck an egg

Comment by Eric

December 2nd 2006 23:32

Mal Gadget

Ahmed, while I agree that Google is a kick ass company, I must remember that people felt the same way about Microsoft when they took down IBM.

Just a thought...

Comment by Ahmed

December 2nd 2006 23:37

techy.Bytes
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
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Cinema Three

Oh really? *sigh* I'm too young to remember/know/care about that...

If Google goes microsofts way it would be a saaaad day for me...

Comment by Eric

December 2nd 2006 23:41

Mal Gadget

Me too my friend. Me too.

The sad part is Google is pulling the exact same kind of thing that Microsoft did back in the day.

Let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.

Thanks for stopping in by the way.

Comment by Brenton

December 3rd 2006 08:03

Dr Spin
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I read the article... I can't really say that Google are concerning me at all with what they're doing.

When it comes to Yahoo and Google, I know which one sold out to Chianese authoritoies and gave then information that could be used to arrestest individuals... and whatever ever else...

Google for me.

Comment by Ahmed

December 3rd 2006 08:17

techy.Bytes
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
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Qwerk
Cinema Three

Google did the same in the end Brenton

Yahoo and MS caved in first though, b about 3/4 years I think :-\

Comment by Brenton

December 3rd 2006 08:23

Dr Spin
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Did they?

I'd have to look into that... I know that Google agreed to censor their results, but I'm not aware they delivered information.

I'll check it out on... um, google it guess. i said something else at first, but turns out it's porn.

Comment by Ahmed

December 3rd 2006 08:30

techy.Bytes
Video Gamer Kids
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Qwerk
Cinema Three

heh, wel I know they cencored their searches, haven't read anything about them giving away results...

Comment by Brenton

December 3rd 2006 08:50

Dr Spin
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Yeah I checked, only Yahoo gave info that led to arrest.

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