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Author and search optimization expert Aaron Wall headed to Google's Knol, as did many SEO professionals, to create a page. He doesn't sound happy about what he found.
Editor's Note: Google may have a problem on its hands. It's reasonable Google would trust its own Wikipedia over outside sources. But fair-minded publishers are likely to feel disenfranchised if digital nepotism knocks them down a notch in the search rankings.
"Some may call this the Query Deserves Freshness algorithm, but one might equally decide to call it the copyright work deserves to be stolen algorithm," said Wall.
"Google knows the content is duplicate, and yet they prefer to rank their own house content over the originally published source."
Full article here:
http://archive.webpronews.com/2008a/0729.html
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Editor's Note: Google may have a problem on its hands. It's reasonable Google would trust its own Wikipedia over outside sources. But fair-minded publishers are likely to feel disenfranchised if digital nepotism knocks them down a notch in the search rankings.
"Some may call this the Query Deserves Freshness algorithm, but one might equally decide to call it the copyright work deserves to be stolen algorithm," said Wall.
"Google knows the content is duplicate, and yet they prefer to rank their own house content over the originally published source."
Full article here:
http://archive.webpronews.com/2008a/0729.html
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