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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2007 - 11:01 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 322 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft, which runs Live Search and is the parent company of aQuantive, which owns Avenue A Razorfish, is now partnering with another search marketing firm, The Search Agency, to offer SEO and Paid Search Marketing services to small businesses. Is it ethical for a search engine to offer SEO?
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from LocalHound 322 days ago #
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I agree that this does not seem ethical... because search engines say that they do not accept payment for placment in the natural results.  They should not be saying that and have ANY revenue coming in from companies paying to rank.  Because how they get ranked is semantic for exactly the reasons discussed in this post.

from toddmintz 322 days ago #
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It would be much less ethical if they had a higher market share than 5%...

from tonynwright 322 days ago #
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This is going to be an interesting ride.

from SearchBuzz 322 days ago #
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Certainly it creates a conflict of interest and will open up many discussions to debate....

from Webclimb 321 days ago #
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I smell a law suit.  Try to get a judge to beleive that the Google or Microsfot owned SEO Firm did not have inside knowledge of how their algo worked in order to rank their clients.  So now Google and MSN do not accept payment for placement unless you pay for placement. Huh?

from johnandrews 321 days ago #
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I hope they publish the client lists :-)

from scottclark 321 days ago #
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A suit filed by whom?

from igorthetroll 294 days ago # - show/hide this comment
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Ha, Ha, everyone is going to be an SEO expert...Grandma and Grandpa SEO thier Grandchildren to Yale..:)


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