kevan

Please join the movement to Keep Google Honest! If they are able to control search AND social we are screwed as SEOs.

Check this video out (even though the way this guys voice cracks makes him sound butthurt, HAHA)

Unfair Google Plus Rankings: Force Google To Do What's Right - YouTube

or check out the write-up that include links that include FB links, videos and contact info to Keep Google Honest.

The Keep Google Honest Campaign

ATLEAST WATCH THE VID FOR THE BUTT HURT IN HIS VOICE and what he's saying is true.

Inb4 Oh noes Oh Noes!!!

faceblogger

Oh noes

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pIZZaBOY

Don't use their service? First of all, where does Google ever say they care about equality? You're using their search engine, and you're using their video hosting to broadcast your message.

Get a grip.

kevan

CNN MONEY chimes in....

Why Google's new search might be illegal - Jan. 18, 2012

wannabie

Rather bang on comment to be honest

tonymontana

Lmao poor guy sounds like he's about to cry

kevan

I know right? It was the first thing I noticed lol.

Reversal Magnet

Wut?
Google not dishonest

1yerrot

OH NOES!!!!

Kidding. This is a dangerous thing and yes dude does sound like he's gonna cry. LULZ... Keep the Googlez Honest yo.

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lukep

Facebook and Twitter do not let Google crawl their sites. How the fuck is Google supposed to give them fair coverage?

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wannabie

Google does crawl both unless it's private or behind a password, even then it indexes

Bofu2U

Huh?

https://www.google.com/search?client...hannel=suggest
https://www.google.com/search?client...hannel=suggest

Unless you're referencing the backend of it through login, etc.

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1yerrot

How do you figure that?

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mimoza3

to keep something honest it needs to be honest in the first place, I am not so sure this applies to this company... maybe way back when it was 4 servers on a table in some rome at Stanford...

kevan

They are already under scrutiny from the feds for other issues, hopefully this gets looked at too.

IceToEskimos

Google is a not a public service. If you think that it is, or that the Gov. should investigate the way G structures it's SERPs, you are anti-free market, and anti-capitalist. The market will determine if G's new search policies will be successful or not, and if G wants to rebrand itself as a portal, so be it. Someone else is waiting to grab a larger share of the search market.

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Insomniac

Smartest thing in this thread.

negro2k

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lukep

Mind=Blown. Almost.... This still isn't very useful as search results for their sites.

Where did I hear about this? Certainly many of us here remember back when Twitter had its' trial run in Google displaying real time tweets at the top of time-sensitive SERPS... That ended around the beginning of last year, and twitter announced that they were going specifically with BING at that point, dissing google, and shutting googlebot off their site via robots.txt.

I'd bet there are a couple of threads about that on here, but I couldn't find them in a quick keyword search. ;(

However, the CNN Money article that Kevan linked to above said it again and included Facebook too, at least as far as Google themselves say:

So sure, there may be some bot action getting through to those sites, but it appears that their robots.txt or GWT profiles are restricting googlebot from indexing much of their content.

If that's true, then there is simply no way whatsoever google can display their results alongside g+ results in g serps.

Anyway, like IceToEskimos says, Free Market advocates should despise all of this "google is being an evil monopoly" shit anyway. If someone else starts offering a superior search product and competing for realz, then it's suddenly not an evil monopoly anymore. How can you blame google for their lack of existence?

The way I see it, the only thing they could do to be "evil" is to illegally suppress the competition, such as murdering young startups with superior search technology. Just buying out the competition to come and work for google is simply business as usual.

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lukep

Wow, what a bunch of fearmongering!

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IMSHERIFF

Most people who complain are little bitches who should be taken out of search anyway.

tonymontana

Okay there Sheriff faggot

Hitch

Google will never be honest to anyone. I can give hundreds of examples. When you feel in heaven, it will take from you more than you could ever imagine.

1yerrot

I do believe this and I think it will happen if they continue to try to strong-arm people into joining their crappy social network. Google doesn't realize that they are FAIL at social, so they just figure they will force themselves upon the masses and we'll learn to love it. Kinda creepy actually.

I think the Keep Google Honest campaign is good though, just so they know people are starting to get irritated at the strong-arming.


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kevan

Thanks, it seems that the movement is picking up steam!

KEEP GOOGLE HONEST!!!

shawnhag

guy is a douchebag - video is gay - but its kind of right. true, his voice does just sound like his money site dropped to page 10

does this dude really think he is going to make a difference. lol at people trying to make a difference

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