Sunday, March 26, 2006

Lawsuit alleges Google wrongfully banishes Web sites

RGJ.com: Lawsuit alleges Google wrongfully banishes Web sites: "SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.
The civil complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose by KinderStart.com, seeks to be certified as a class action representing the owners of all Web sites blacklisted by Google's Internet-leading search engine since January 2001.
KinderStart, a Norwalk-based Web site devoted to information about children, says it was dropped from Google's index a year ago without warning."
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Google Holds 75 Percent Market Share in the U.K., According to WebSideStory @ SYS-CON Media

Google Holds 75 Percent Market Share in the U.K., According to WebSideStory @ SYS-CON Media: "LONDON, March 24 /PRNewswire/ --
- Internet Giant Refers Nearly Three Out of Every Four Searches in the U.K., Far Outpacing Its Nearest Competitor
Google, the San Francisco-based Internet search giant, dominates the search engine market in the U.K., referring nearly three out of every four search engine visitors, according to new, independent data from WebSideStory, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand digital marketing and customer analysis applications.
For the month of Feb. 2006, Google referred an average of 74.67 percent of all U.K. visitors to other sites on the web, compared to just 9.3 percent for its nearest competitor, according to the WebSideStory Index, a new statistical barometer that features techno-graphic trends culled from the millions of users that visit web sites using the company's award-winning web analytics solution, HBX Analytics. Google's search referral percentage in the U.K. exceeds both the U.S. average for the month (55.39 percent), as well as the global average (62.4 percent). "
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