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   Google bomb

   In response to criticism for allowing the Google bombs, Matt Cutts, the head of the Google’s Webspam team, said that Google bombs had not “been a very high priority for us.” ... In January 2007, Google announced they altered their search engine algorithm to significantly reduce the effectiveness of the technique.
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   Google

   In 2002, they claimed that pigeons were the secret behind their growing search engine. ... In 2007, Google announced two joke products.
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   nofollow

   Google states that their engine takes "nofollow" literally and does not "follow" the link at all. ... Search engines have attempted to repurpose the nofollow attribute for something different.
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   Search engine optimization

   Google says it ranks sites using more than 200 different signals. ... A top-ranked SEO blog Seomoz.org has reported, "Search marketers, in a twist of irony, receive a very small share of their traffic from search engines."
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   Google Maps

   It is a free service, which currently does not contain ads, but Google states in their terms of use that they reserve the right to display ads in the future. ... Google's case study is about Nestoria, a property search engine in the UK and Spain.
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   Criticism of Google

   The New York Times has complained that the caching of their content during a web crawl, a feature utilized by search engines including Google Web Search, violates copyright. ... Google claims that mail sent to or from Gmail is never read by a human being beyond the account holder, and is only used to improve relevance of advertisements.
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   Machine translation

   About 90% of an average text corresponds to these simple conditions. ... Google has claimed that promising results were obtained using a proprietary statistical machine translation engine.
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   PageRank

   PageRank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page (hence the name Page-Rank) and later Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine. ... Google advises webmasters to use the nofollow HTML attribute value on sponsored links.
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   Google Earth

   Google announced on May 30, 2007 that it is acquiring Panoramio. ... In October 2007, The Guardian reported that the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades were using Google Earth to plan Qassam rocket attacks on Israel (See: List of Qassam rocket attacks.)
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    Vertical search

    Broad-based search engines such as Google or Yahoo fetch very large numbers of documents using a Web crawler. ... For example, he said someone doing a search on Edmunds.com, an automobile search engine, is probably more serious about buying a car than someone doing a car search on a general search engine.

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