M>> It's not illegal, but it's SEO gone bad. Companies such as Quixtar are
>> using Google-bombing, link farms and Web spam pages to place positive
>> sites in the top search results -- which pushes the negative ones >> down.
> Yeah, and there may be no laws against it, but if it's done on a large
> enough basis you can bet they'll get sued.
On what grounds?
Barry Margolin, snipped-for-privacy@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: They don't need any 'grounds'. 'Grounds' only belong to coffee you have prepared. When large organizations, i.e. film and recording industries do not get their way, they _always_ file suit; it costs them virtually nothing, where it costs small web site owners and regular users a slight fortune to defend themselves against frivilous lawsuits, which is what such a lawsuit (as manipulating a search engine) would be. PAT]