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Re:After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest co... by paulfwalsh on Friday May 30, 2014 @01:07PM (#7822873)
I might understand your action if you removed their company from search results when people searched for related keywords. But to remove them when someone searches for their company name is just wrong. You have enough engineers and resource to implement a better solution than to just wipe a company from the Web.
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Re:After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest co... by donbmarks on Friday May 30, 2014 @03:04PM (#7823407)
yes, this is a very good point and should be easy to differentiate between a branded company name versus (emd or other spam profile)

also, they continue to sell ads for these branded company searches to other competitors

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