If there’s one thing Google guards closely, it’s the secrets of its search service. Despite praising the virtues for the customer of transparency online, Google’s anything but transparent. Take a look at their webmaster guidelines, which in part explain how to avoid the Google Death Penalty.
But one thing that is clear is that linking schemes, particularly those using shadow websites, are forbidden.
So the question is: Is Google watching the Chris Bowers pagerank scam? Will they delist him and the entire Daily Kos.com domain if they find that he’s breaking the rules? It’s clear they’re recruiting people to spam links to pre-selected pages across volunteer website owners’ sites based on their use of a SEO Blogger checkbox option on their signup page. This is precisely the kind of illegal cross-link scheme Google warns about being an unethical SEO practice.
So the ball’s in your court, Google. If you do not delist Daily Kos for this behavior you call unethical, then you have a partisan political bias.
Moving on, you didn’t think you’d get away without me mentioning Net Neutrality did you? Media Freedom reminds us of the dangers should the FCC act without legislation, which is why I think Republicans must proactively support the Henry Waxman Net Neutrality bill.
And in case you didn’t have enough reason to oppose online regulation, here’s another: there are new services out today that might be illegal under Net Neutrality because they are based on specially funded Internet access, that cannot be neutral if it is to pay the bills and recoup investment costs. Entire lines of devices would become impractical and illegal. That’s a substantial killing of innovation and good American jobs.
Further, we cannot afford to discourage investment in the Internet’s basic infrastructure. As long as ISPs can profit, that investment will happen. But thanks to the FCC, that investment could slow up. Internet firms are already pushing the limits of how much video they can push online, but those limits will stagnate if the FCC forces a one-size-fits-all, all-sites-go-equally-fast pipe dream of technical mediocrity.
We have to pass a bill stopping the FCC as soon as we can, even if it’s under the Democrat-run Congress. We have to commit to passing a bill, and make sure the FCC understands that there will be a reckoning if they so much as flinch at doing Title II reclassification.
I want Republicans on the floor of the House and the Senate, shouting of the fire and brimstone that await every single member of the FCC that dares to defy the Congress and the Courts on this. There is no margin for error, and there is no room for less than total commitment here. The Internet is that important for all Americans’ liberty and prosperity.
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Great work Neil
fpete13527 (Diary) Saturday, October 9th at 1:52AM EDT (link)Republican Congress, wake up and start getting involve in this!
It would seem that any rules they enact
mirac777 (Diary) Saturday, October 9th at 6:02AM EDT (link)will not be applied to their cronies and pals. This will give them the ability to suppress one group and let another do whatever they want. Look at Obamas Lobbyist-Ban executive order. Right after he signed it into law, he had to start signing waivers for the Lobbyists he was still having dinner with at the Whitehouse. He hired many Lobbyists to work in his cabinet.
McDonalds had to have a waiver from the healthcare bill. Seems to be a pattern of passing laws, and then passing waivers for those who they deem to be liberal enough to advance their agenda. This administration and the Liberals in Congress will go down in history as the nastiset bunch of thugs to ever step into a political ring.
United we stand…. Divided we fall.. into the pits of Socialism.
One way to undermine the rule of law
Locke (Diary) Saturday, October 9th at 6:38AM EDT (link)Ban everything and trust the discretion of the prosecutors and administrators. It’s bad enough when they can be trusted. It’s absolute tyranny when they can’t.
Great work Neil.
google
OldNuc Saturday, October 9th at 6:42PM EDT (link)has a a partisan political bias and just now everyone notices? I’m shocked, shocked I say.
Stop Using Google!
albeus Sunday, October 10th at 9:23AM EDT (link)I stopped using Google several election cycles ago when I learned that Google search engine brings up the most popular searches results to yoru search parameters, rather than the one that most clearly matches your request. Dems were using Google then to steer people to articles that were hostile to Republican candidates. It’s the Google search algorhythm at fault.
So, who do you use if not Google??? nt
davesinsanantonio (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 10:08AM EDT (link)there are others
MF (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 12:48PM EDT (link)Clearly Yahoo! is one (www.yahoo.com), although they are well known to be very liberally slanted as well. I don’t know the bend of some others, but there is ask.com, bing.com, alta-vista.com, lycos.com and msn.com.
Dogpile.com is a combination of search engines. I’m not sure what that means, but I’ve used it in the past.
Thanks, I will try some of them out. nt
davesinsanantonio (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 3:26PM EDT (link)Then you are contributing to the problem
Pi Over Three (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 4:27PM EDT (link)Google isn’t going to go away because you stop using it. By using it though, you can influence the results.
It works both ways.
I drive a car powered by hydrogen – C8H18 to be exact.
I tried this link but it didn't work
hidlins Monday, October 11th at 8:50AM EDT (link)” here’s another:” there are new services out today that might be illegal under Net Neutrality” it said the information was not available
Looks like they have a server issue
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 9:00AM EDT (link)Hopefully they come back soon. It’s a good site on this stuff.
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Net neutrality should have its own article
foxpup Tuesday, October 12th at 9:23PM EDT (link)Being a strong supporter of free speech, I’m an advocate of net neutrality, at least as I define it. Others need to understand that the internet is public property. We hire commercial entities to connect us, but the net itself is the people’s and should serve all its owners.
If a machine of mine connected to the internet sends out a data packet, that packet should have the same chances of reaching its destination as any other packet sent by anyone else for any other purpose. The same rule applies when I mail a letter at the post office. That stamp is no guarantee of delivery but the item has an equal chance (very high) of reaching its destination as any one else’s. The same goes for the highway which is also public property. Assuming that my auto stays operational, I can get to my destination just about as freely as any other person no matter what that other person’s status or importance is.
Republicans should be strong advocates of this kind of position, no matter what verizon, google, ATT, or the US government would like to see. It just makes for good justice.