How fair should Google Search be?
By Romain Thursday, September 4 2008 - 12:15 UTC - Discussion - Permalink
By Romain Thursday, September 4 2008 - 12:15 UTC - Discussion - Permalink
This is the question that is raising in my mind right now... If you search for "Chrome" with the Google search engine, you will find their browser in the third position. Okay, it's not the first one, but i'm just wondering how possible is it for the brand-new-shiny-buggy browser to be that well referenced in a "classical" manner.
Of course, this is under the google.com domain which (the main page) is PageRank 10, but well, I'm really wondering if this was a natural process or if something happened. First of, we can see that, using the search engine, the related pages of google.com/chrome are the different search engines... How come? Shouldn't it be more like Mozilla, Opera... Microsoft IE... ? For instance, if I look for the related pages of yahoo.com/finance I will find financial websites such as NASDAQ, etc.
Anyway, if Google can control their search engine like that (and of course it's easy for them to do so...), what is the impact on the fairness of their search engine? The PR seems to be okay as long as there is not business like interference in the process...
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