Here is it again - Kinderstart.com a kid based search engine based in LA was so upset with its Google position that it decided to take Google to court.
The tiff against Google started when Kinderstart started loosing rankings in the search engine going from 18 million page views a month in 2005, and then all of a sudden over 70 percent of their traffic just stopped coming.
Supposedly the owner thinks that Google black listed the site because it was also in the search engine market, and might be seen as a competitor with Google.
So, now Google has been asking a judge to dismiss the suit, because Google has its first amendment rights to choose whatever websites are the most relevant for the keyword term typed in the search engine.
Kinderstart might just have to wake up and realize that their website might not be the best search result built around their specific keyword phrases.
Company is angry over its Google position
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Im not sure if a judge can resolve this "problem". Google is a private company, it is their case.
Posted at 12:54PM on Jul 9th 2006 by Roman Novak, Webproject
3. Yes Roman, your are rigt: Google is a private company, but it is also a big searchengine and should give us the best results for our keywords.
A website big like kinderstart is a refernce for keywords with that reason. So it isn't the right thing to dismiss this site.
4. Now that many SEO companies like seoinc.com have also lost their page rank and google traffic - we have to wait and see if any of them will take the bull by horn?
Posted at 10:20AM on Jul 20th 2006 by Google Success
5. Now with the recent Google PR update many SEO companies like SEO Inc. also have lost their page rank and google traffic. We have to see if any of these companies too go for a legal battle with Google.
Posted at 10:23AM on Jul 20th 2006 by Google Success
6. Google's search results are not always honest. Google de-listed my website, www.ncjusticefraud.com,
from search results for "North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper." At the same time, Microsoft (MSN) ranked my site around #8. Google also refused to allow me to advertise that site, or my other site,
www.chinaisevil.com. Yahoo and MSN also refsued to alow me to advertise. All three censor in America as well as in China. The hypocrites at Google have low ethics, despite their "do no evil" code.
Chris Langdon, qiology@aol.com
Posted at 11:25PM on Aug 13th 2006 by chris langdon
7. Wel, all of us here probably made Google the company that it is today by using their search engine, while there are plenty others around.
Posted at 12:06AM on Aug 23rd 2006 by Max van Norden
8. Actually, going back to the basics, such as the use of business cards and mailings should get these search engine companies to play more fair. Personally, I very much dislike their dishonest practice of "Click Here", "Register Now" and so on without any real idea of the cost of their product. I suspect they must assume we have endless amounts of money and the cost really holds no barrier in the decision process.
Money hungry fools is what they are. Only when things get tough, do they actually become humble and begin playing fair again.
Posted at 7:37AM on Sep 1st 2006 by Karin Werner
1. "Kinderstart might just have to wake up..."
It's weird to me that a corporate entity like Google has 1st amendment rights. And when does google become so big and powerful that...? Well you know, the Disney / Anakin Skywalker thing.
Posted at 5:14PM on Jul 5th 2006 by Mike