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Google bans itself from own search engine results after complaint

by Kenny Hemphill on 9 March 2011 in News

Google has banned one of its own properties from the results on its search engine. On Monday Google acquired British financial comparison site BeatThatQuote.com for a reported £37.7 million. On Tuesday, following a complaint from search engine optimisation company, SEOBook, the site was penalised and dropped out of site in Google’s search engine rankings.

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Microsoft co-opts Facebook to take on Google

by Simon Aughton on 14 October 2010 in News
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Microsoft has struck a deal with Facebook that it hopes will help its Bing search engine to close the gap to Google. Bing will be able to take data posted on Facebook — such as users’ “likes” or preferences — and use that information to provide more relevant search results from data that Google doesn’t have.

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China says Google can stay

by admin on 20 July 2010 in News

China is satisfied that Google is complying with Chinese laws after the search engine tweaked the way it directs users to an unfiltered search page.

Guxiang, a company that operates Google’s websites in China, had committed to “abide by Chinese law,” and ensure the company did not provide illegal content, said Zhang Feng, head of the ministry’s communication development division.

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