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Re:How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google by PaulHoule on Saturday December 28, 2013 @08:11PM (#6977596)
Note that the worst content farms either evolved from or bought second and third tier search engines (About.com, AOL) because they could sue Google in an antitrust lawsuit if they ever got burned for their crappy content and linking schemes.
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Re:How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google by acgourley on Saturday December 28, 2013 @08:25PM (#6977671)
That's pretty interesting if true - do you have any evidence?
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Re:How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google by declan on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:36AM (#6978553)
It's not true. First, it's wrong on liability under federal antitrust law. Second, just look at (ick) Demand Media, home to eHow.com and Cracked.com, which operates no search engines.
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