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• com, UK -  A lawsuit that accused Google of manipulating its page ranking system has been thrown out by a US court. It was filed by SearchKing, a web host and search engine, and argued that Google deliberately made changes to its PageRank system to remove SearchKing’s web sites from top search rankings. ...
• The court took the view that the rankings created by PageRank were “fundamentally subjective in nature” and, according to court documents, “PageRanks are opinions - opinions of the significance of particular websites as they correspond to a search query". ...

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• Subject: SearchDay #441 - Google Asks Court to Dismiss SearchKing Lawsuit .

• Last fall, an Oklahoma Web company, SearchKing Inc. ... In effect, SearchKing was offering its clients a chance to boost their own Google rankings by buying ads on more-popular sites. SearchKing filed suit against the search company in federal court in Oklahoma, claiming that Google "purposefully devalued" SearchKing and its customers, damaging its reputation and hurting its advertising sales. ... In court filings, the company said SearchKing "engaged in behavior that would lower the quality of Google search results" and alter the company's ranking system. ... As evidence of the dangers of running afoul of Google, optimizers point to Oklahoma City-based SearchKing, an online directory for hundreds of small, specialty Web sites. SearchKing also sells advertising links designed both to deliver traffic to an advertiser and boost its rankings in Google and other search results. Bob Massa, SearchKing's chief executive, last August launched the PR Ad Network as a way to capitalize on Google's page-ranking system, known as PageRank. PageRank rates Web sites on a scale of one to 10 based on their popularity, and the rankings can be viewed by Web users if they install special Google software. PR Ad Network sells ads that are priced according to a site's PageRank, with higher-ranked sites commanding higher prices. ... What's more, sites that participated in the separate SearchKing directory also had their Google rankings lowered. He filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma City federal court, claiming Google was punishing him for trying to profit from the company's page-ranking system.

• Today’s issue also offers tips on avoiding phony SEO companies, news about Yahoo! paying Google and Overture for their services, a company that won a lawsuit against Google (well, sort of) and Verity’s purchase of Inktomi’s enterprise search technology. ...
• Searchking's Google rank restored, but not the Pagerank.
• The Oklahoma company that filed a lawsuit against Google has won.
• the right to the top spot for its company name, Searchking. However, Searchking’s page rank remains penalized and is still at 7.

• Survey on Google´s PageRank - Information on the algorithm, how to increase PageRank, what diminishes it and how to distribute PageRank within a website.
• LawMeme: Google Replies to SearchKing Lawsuit - Analysis of the case and copies of relevant legal documents.
• Google's Pagerank and How to Get the Most From It - Paper by Phil Craven, in which he provides theories on how PR is calculated and the importance of internal, dangling, inbound, and outbound links. ...
• PageRank Explained - Paper by The Black Box Group detailing their interpretation of how PR works and how pages can be best optimized to utilize it. ...

• Google PageRank: What Is All The Fuss About?. ...
• Pandia:The SearchKing Google controversy revisited.
• I first posted something here about search engine guru Danny Sullivan's excellent article on SearchEngineWatch about the lawsuit between SearchKing and Google over the latter's PageRank algorithm, until my trusted colleague Mr. ...
• If you're curious about Google PageRank (and if you care about Internet marketing, you should be) and you still haven't read Danny's original account of the whole lawsuit, click the link below. It does a great job laying out not only the lawsuit but just what exactly PageRank is and why folks are so exercised about it. ...
• SearchEngineWatch: Google Sued Over PageRank Decrease.
• Web Hosting News:SearchKing Google Rank Restored.
• com: Google PageRank Examined in Court.
• Google PageRank Explained.
• Google Moves Away From Pagerank?.

• googlebotty, have you really thought this through? think about this, searchking starts their pay by pagerank program, soon, lots of "me too" sites see it as easy money and do the same. then you have the situation where you can just go and buy your pagerank instead of earning it. ...
• only problem is, by now the pagerank system has become corrupted and a joke. google, who has based their entire search results around the pagerank system, now has a joke on their hands, their once respected relevant results are just a corrupted tacky irrelevant bunch of results that have been bought, people turn away from using google, google are now in trouble. ...
• google can not let sk do this to their search engine unless they dont plan to stay in business, and IF google did adjust sk's pagerank (which hasnt been shown) they are only protecting their business from being degraded and going to hell. ...
• I've never heard of searchking before either, (although I think their lawsuit is hilariously un-winnable) but I have to admit that Google's overall power over the search world is unbelievably all-encompassing. ...
• Maybe it was Bob's plan all along to set a trap for Google, so he could then have a way to expose the fallacies of PageRank to the masses via the media. ...
• However, it has openly promoted it's PageRank foundation and promoted it so heavily through it's tool bar. ...
• They own the term PageRank as a method of ranking websites. ...
• The claim is that it delivers great PageRank which is Google's gig.
• This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web Page, 98 . ...

• * Google has replied to SearchKing lawsuit.
• As you might remember, the small online advertising network company SearchKing filed a lawsuit against Google last October.
• SearchKing claimed that Google had lowered the PageRank ratings for the SearchKing Web pages. In addition to asking for damages, SearchKing filed a motion with its complaint asking for a preliminary injunction to force Google to restore its PageRank ratings.
• In addition, Google has filed its own motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

• Google voert verweer tegen aanklacht Searchking.
• Lawmeme bericht dat Google heeft gereageerd op de aanklacht die SearchKing in oktober 2002 heeft ingediend tegen de zoekmachine. Google wordt verweten Searchking's positie in de zoekresultaten opzettelijk te verlagen. ... SearchKing benut dit PageRank-systeem door haar klanten binnen het eigen netwerk naar elkaar te laten linken linken. ... Lawmeme concludeert dat Google volledig in haar recht staat en voegt hieraan toe dat een discussie over Google's dominante positie op het internet buiten de rechtszaal plaats moet vinden "the discussion about the proper role of search engines is one that needs to take place in the same place this case began, back before it was a lawsuit: out on the Internet, where people read and appreciate others' thoughts, and then contribute their own by adding links. ...

• Specifically, in this article on the suit against Google brought by SearchKing, they express concern over the possible negative repercussions of linking to a page penalized by Google. ...
• What happened in the SearchKing case is not entirely unprecedented. Other companies have explicitly sold links to high-scoring Google PageRank pages in an attempt to boost rankings. So SearchKing wasn't the only company to provide such a service, just the most vocal and attention-seeking one.
• Link farms are also known as "FFAs" or "free-for-all" link exchanges where the sole purpose of exchanging links was to boost Google PageRank. ...
• Related Articles: Google-SearchKing Lawsuit and the follow-up Preliminary Injunction Denied.

• Bob Massa, president of SearchKing Inc. and PR Ad Network, filed a lawsuit today against Google on the grounds "the organization arbitrarily and purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' web sites, causing his business to suffer financially".
• They have built up solid content, links and search engine presence, resulting in a Google PageRank of 7. ...
• >> I am so fed up with all this obsession search engine marketers have with Google PageRank™. Don't link here, don't link there, think twice before linking to low PR sites, even for editorial reasons, watch out - your PageRank is leaking, I mean Geez Louise! Note to self: if I ever become so obsessed with Google PageRank™ to the extent where it starts to impact my editorial reasoning and makes me second guess my decision to link to certain sites, it's time to quit SEO and try something else.
• >> So much has happened in the search engine space over the past few weeks (what's new right?), but the most interesting development causing flame wars all over the search engine forums is the apparent PageRank penalty applied by Google to SearchKing portals. ...
• Remember back on 25 August, we reported that SearchKing had begun to use high PageRank as a selling tool for advertising space? Well apparently Google have determined this was breaking their rules and punished SearchKing in the last index update by cutting their prior PR in half, applying the dreaded PR0 penalty to their portal sites and penalizing customer sites of their PR Ad Network. ...
• The article, which is actually a story about the apparent demise of Google PageRank, appeared on Wired over the weekend. ...
• search engine discussion boards tend to be populated by webmasters and consultants trying to outfox PageRank in hopes of getting to the top of Google results. ...

• 03-25-GOOGLE - Google Sued Allegedly for Libelous Use of PageRank! Accountingweb. ... The suit claims that Google's PageRank system "reformats information obtained from accurate sources, resulting in changing of the context in which information is presented. ...
• American Blind & Wallpaper has filed a lawsuit against Google for trademark infringment and trademark dilution for connecting paid-listing results to American Blind's trademarks. Mentioned in the lawsuit are Google's partners: AOL, Ask Jeeves and Earth Link. ... It's a shame that with so many PhDs they cannot remove dumb fallacies from the PageRank metric, come up with better scoring metrics or stop Google bombs. ... 01-26-GOOGLE - Say "Adios" to PageRank and Google Relevance with More Bombs from Pranksters. ... According to Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle staff writer, website pranksters and bloggers are launching another Google bomb attack, but this time many are questioning Google relevance technology and PageRank altogether. As Mi Islita has questioned in the past, some way, some how, SEOs and the public bought the idea from Google that semantic relevance and citation importance can be measured in terms of PageRank or that link citation equates to citation importance (this may be true for hardcopy citation but not for electronic citation via links as link connectivity is easy to deceive). ... Another black eye to Google relevance and PageRank. ... AOL's Netscape: Trademark Lawsuit Settled AOL settled a trademark dispute with Playboy after an appeals court sided with Playboy. ... Netscape Lawsuit: An Updated Post. According to this news from Associated Press, Playboy got an appeal court OK to continue Internet search lawsuit against Netscape. ... A federal appeals court has ordered a lower court judge to review his ruling that would expedite SUN antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.
• 01-15-SCO - SCO to Target all LINUX Users in Europe! SCO Group said it is expanding its software licensing program to force European companies who use the free Linux operating system to either pay fees or face the threat of a lawsuit. ... 01-14-INFOSPACE - Court Rulings in the InfoSpace vs Naveen Jain Matter: Jain Wins! According to Business Wire, the King County Superior Court ruled on several summary judgment motions in the lawsuit entitled InfoSpace, Inc. ...
• 01-08-EBAY - eBay Settles Patent Suit with Tumbleweed According to AP, eBay has settled a lawsuit with Tumbleweed, the company that, believe it or not, patented those personalized link alerts that are sent to your email inbox. ... Will Stanford enforce the poison pill proprietary rights planted in the PageRank patent and cut the cheese with Google? Time will tell. ... More and more users are realizing that Google's PageRank is not the best way of ranking semantic relevance. ... As we have posted many times, PageRank is full of fallacies. ...

• * SearchKing is sueing Google.
• The search engine SearchKing filed lawsuit against Google because Google dropped their PageRank. ( Read SearchKing's press release).
• How can you obtain high link popularity and a good PageRank so that your Web pages get a high ranking on Google and other popular search engines? Our 5 part series will help you.

• Last fall, an Oklahoma Web company, SearchKing Inc. ... In effect, SearchKing was offering its clients a chance to boost their own Google rankings by buying ads on more-popular sites. SearchKing filed suit against the search company in federal court in Oklahoma, claiming that Google "purposefully devalued" SearchKing and its customers, damaging its reputation and hurting its advertising sales. ... In court filings, the company said SearchKing "engaged in behavior that would lower the quality of Google search results" and alter the company's ranking system. ... As evidence of the dangers of running afoul of Google, optimizers point to Oklahoma City-based SearchKing, an online directory for hundreds of small, specialty Web sites. SearchKing also sells advertising links designed both to deliver traffic to an advertiser and boost its rankings in Google and other search results. Bob Massa, SearchKing's chief executive, last August launched the PR Ad Network as a way to capitalize on Google's page-ranking system, known as PageRank. PageRank rates Web sites on a scale of one to 10 based on their popularity, and the rankings can be viewed by Web users if they install special Google software. PR Ad Network sells ads that are priced according to a site's PageRank, with higher-ranked sites commanding higher prices. ... What's more, sites that participated in the separate SearchKing directory also had their Google rankings lowered. He filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma City federal court, claiming Google was punishing him for trying to profit from the company's page-ranking system.

• "Google wins over SearchKing in PageRank case".
• Class action lawsuit filed against Looksmart.
• "LookSmart changes rules mid-game - Players retaliate with lawsuit. ...

• Searchking complaining.
• Google replies to SearchKing lawsuit.
• Google hase pagerank 11?.
• Searchking update in lawmeme.
• Pandia: PageRank For Sale - SearchKing has started selling text ads on its network of independent portals, with prices based on Google PageRank. Jono Craig asks Robert Massa of SearchKing if he really believes he can get away with it. ...
• Topic-Sensitive PageRank - By Haveliwala, Taher H. ...
• The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web - By Page, Lawrence; Brin, Sergey; Motwani, Rajeev; Winograd, Terry. ...
• Efficient Computation of PageRank - By Haveliwala, T. ...
• Pagerank, Toolbar. ...

• Google Wins SearchKing Lawsuit.
• Google Wins SearchKing Lawsuit top .
• (2 Jun) A federal court in Oklahoma ruled that Google PageRank -- a system for ranking the significance of a Web page to the query -- is protected by the First Amendment. ...

• Searchking files suit against Google .
• Bob Massa, president of SearchKing Inc. ... According to the lawsuit, Google lowered SearchKing's PageRank and the ranking of the web sites it hosts because it felt SearchKing's site was a threat. PageRank is a Google-developed system of determining the value of a particular web site. ...

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• The judge ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act does not apply to the Internet, and dismissed the lawsuit against Southwest. ...
• Posted by: Tom Mighell on Monday, October 21, 2002 | Profile 0 comments (124 views)  |  link Lawsuit against Google.
• SearchKing, a search engine and web hosting service, is suing Google, and it's just dying to tell you this; not only did it issue a press release on its website, it also posted the summons, complaint, and motion for preliminary injunction. The lawsuit it based on SearchKing's placement of text ads for businesses on websites that had a high PageRank from Google. According to SearchKing, Google responded to this by lowering the PageRanking of SearchKing and the sites it hosts. One thing this lawsuit shows is Google's power in the search market -- imagine filing a lawsuit because your sites are not high enough in the rankings. ...

• html the lawsuit by SearchKing against Google for possible PR penalization, and the suggestion by Google and other SEO professionals to report SEO "spam" to search portals, do you feel that all SEO is SPAM? This forum is very interested in your thoughts, opinions and comments. ...
• Even in Brin and Page's original PageRank paper, before Google was introduced to the world, they talked about people trying to manipulate the results. ...
• html the lawsuit by SearchKing against Google for possible PR penalization, and the suggestion by Google and other SEO professionals to report SEO "spam" to search portals, do you feel that all SEO is SPAM? This forum is very interested in your thoughts, opinions and comments. ...

• Bad part - 0 pagerank on site. ...
• Backlinks and Page Rank updated This thread in WMW discusses new changes in Google for backlinks and PageRank. ...
• An experimental feature is "Fix PageRank through proxies". ...
• LawMeme has posted Google's response to the Search King lawsuit. SearchKing is charging $20 for these, which are publically available. ...
• For those who are unaware, the Google Directory is an Open Directory Project (DMOZ) feed with a twist: Google's Pagerank. The links are in order of pagerank rather than in DMOZ, which is alphabetical. ...

• Bob Massa, president of SearchKing and PR Ad Network, has.
• filed a lawsuit against Google on the grounds that Google.
• which was selling text ads based on the PageRank of the page.
• where the ads appeared, it "purposefully" reduced SearchKing's.
• PageRank.
• searchking. ...

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• com boom years agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a class action lawsuit filed by investors for allegedly inflating their IPOs. ...

• Google replies to SearchKing lawsuit: The lawsuit alleged that changes made by Google to its algorithms reduced the PageRank ratings Google assigned to pages within the "SearchKing Network" and that this reduction was an illegal interference with SearchKing's business. In addition to asking for damages, SearchKing filed a motion with its complaint asking for a preliminary injunction to force Google to restore its PageRanks. ...
• And second, Google has gone one step further and filed its own motion to dismiss the lawsuit (the Motion to Dismiss). Google thinks, or at the very least is asserting, that it has a slam-dunk iron-clad defense to SearchKing's claims.

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