>> 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?
Google has money and I'm sure they have hired competent, resourceful attorneys who could find something reasonable and make it stick. Something fraud-related, possibly, or they might be able to point to violations of their Terms of Service.
against frivilous lawsuits, which is what such a lawsuit (as manipulating
> a search engine) would be. PAT]
Oh, really? Creating fraudulent search engine results is not a valid reason for a lawsuit?
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