Posts tagged with 'search neutrality'

Foundem vs Google redux: it was a penalty! And search neutrality is at stake, dammit!

In August last year I wrote an article called Foundem vs Google: a case study in SEO fail. Foundem had been complaining about Google, due to its lowly search rankings.

My article was based on a story published in The Guardian, which pretty much sounded like a big bunch of sour grapes to me. As such I called out Foundem, which didn’t appear to be doing an amazing job of SEO best practice.

But Foundem insisted that The Guardian article had been heavily edited, claiming that the newspaper’s lawyers didn’t want it to use words like ‘penalties’ and ‘whitelisting’ in the article, when referring to Google. Big, scary Google.