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Re:It's Time For Google To Take A Stand On Paid Links by netsp on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @11:21PM (#814564)
I'm not sure if I have been downmoded because I have been misunderstood, so I will try again.

I think that the policy of enforcing Google's nofollow guideline by removing sites from their index is not directly about keeping their index free of spammers. It is about enforcing a standard for disclosure specifically designed for their purposes. It's not about disclosure to users, it is about disclosure to search engines.

I don't want anyone purposely deceiving the search engines. I have a problem with the way Google is enforcing this. I think this hints at the issues with having such a powerful Google.

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Re:It's Time For Google To Take A Stand On Paid Links by gnaritas on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:11AM (#815257)
> Google's way of preventing site X from doing this is by intimidating.

Again, so what. I don't care how they do it, but I'm glad they do. The idea that Google is doing something wrong by using their size to try and make a site comply is simply absurd to me; of course they are, that's what they should do.

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