Is Google News and Yahoo Buzz Filtering Some Company Names from their Indexes?
March 21st, 2010. Published under Fraud, Scams. No Comments.
I have a deep suspicion that some companies and organizations are paying Google and Yahoo to filter their names from the Google News and Yahoo Buzz News indexes. On several of the websites that my company owns the news is picked up by Google News. And we submit items to Yahoo Buzz and other social news websites. On more than one occasion I have found that news items containing certain company names are not pulled by Google News, while the items before and after are. On Yahoo Buzz it won’t allow us to use certain company names in the title and description, however if we abbreviate the company name or remove it then the item is accepted. Company names I have had problems with: DELL, ACA International, Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc as well as several others that I may publicize at a later date. I suspect that these companies are paying to prevent (or to censor) the news and both Google and Yahoo are profiting from it. So much for fair and balanced news… EXAMPLE
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Is Google News and Yahoo Buzz Filtering Some Company Names from their Indexes?