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Written by Donald Baker
March 27, 2006
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"Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.
"The civil complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose by KinderStart.com, seeks to be certified as a class action
representing the owners of all Web sites blacklisted by Google's Internet-leading search engine since January 2001.
"KinderStart alleges Google has engaged in anticompetitive behavior and misled the public by positioning its search engine as an objective source for finding Internet content. The suit seeks unspecified financial damages and a court order that would require Google to change its ways."
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More good detail in the news report.
Don Baker
NSI Partners
Written by Steven Birk March 28, 2006
Is the lawsuit because they were banished from Google's index, or because their rankings dropped? Doing a "site:www.kinderstart.com" at Google, it comes back with 29,800 results from the KinderStart site. Must have settled out of court. ;-)
Also kind of humorous how they filed a lawsuit against Google, but have a 728x90 Google Adsense banner at the top of nearly every page! But I guess everyone's trying to make a buck; even off a company you filed a lawsuit against...
Regards,
Steven Birk, Editor
medicalcenternews.com
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