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Re:It's Time For Google To Take A Stand On Paid Links by akd on Thursday September 10, 2009 @04:37AM (#814905)
>Can they threaten to remove sites from their index if you don't write "I love Google" on the top of every webpage?

Sure they can. They wouldn't survive very long. That's why they don't.

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Re:It's Time For Google To Take A Stand On Paid Links by netsp on Thursday September 10, 2009 @07:39PM (#816450)
If they don't survive, it will not be because of damage to their quality, but because of an outcry. There would be in outcry in that case because it is bad and obviously.

There is not a perfect marriage between what is good for Google and what is good for the world.

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