How rel=nofollow Works

Post by nknight » Sat, Jan 14, 2012, 5:17 AM UTC

abalone wrote: post #49

nknight wrote: post #46

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So what? That's not part of the standard search. Since when is Google not allowed to advertise its own services alongside standard search results? What's next, do you whine that Bing has links to MSN and Hotmail? Twitter actually contaminates ordinary search results on its site with paid tweets, and you're mad Google puts some Google+ content off to one side? WTF?

Oh, it's definitely part of standard search now. Schmidt said Twitter content wasn't included because they didn't have "permission" to index it. That's false. They are purposefully excluding it -- a point of fact which I'm glad to see you acknowledge now.

No, it's not part of standard search. And since you seem to know everything that goes on between Twitter and Google, perhaps you could share with us the documents showing Google has the permission it needs to include Twitter results in this very not-standard-search feature?

Edit: By the way, are you a lawyer? If not, even given your apparent insider knowledge of Google and Twitter goings-on, how do you know your legal understanding is correct?

Post by abalone » Mon, Jan 16, 2012, 10:32 PM UTC

nknight wrote: post #51

abalone wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, it's definitely part of standard search now. Schmidt said Twitter content wasn't included because they didn't have "permission" to index it. That's false. They are purposefully excluding it -- a point of fact which I'm glad to see you acknowledge now.

No, it's not part of standard search. And since you seem to know everything that goes on between Twitter and Google, perhaps you could share with us the documents showing Google has the permission it needs to include Twitter results in this very not-standard-search feature? Edit: By the way, are you a lawyer? If not, even given your apparent insider knowledge of Google and Twitter goings-on, how do you know your lega…

Sure, I'd be happy to. Here it is: http://twitter.com/robots.txt

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