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October 4th, 2005 
QuadsZilla In Google’s zeal to purge duplicate content from her searches, she is having difficulty determining the original source of a story. A copycat site will often ranks for a term while the original producer drops in the SERPs or disappears completely.
To highlight this problem, our friends at DarkSEOteam seem to be having a little fun with Mat Cutts over at Google.
Pithy summary and discussion at threadwatch.
This discussion highlights that googlebowling does indead work (something we already knew). The Google Webmaster Guidlines are now proven to be untrue:
Fiction: A competitor can ruin a site’s ranking somehow or have another site removed from Google’s index.
Fact: There’s almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. Your rank and your inclusion are dependent on factors under your control as a webmaster, including content choices and site design.
What kind of world will we live in when one entity controls the flow of information and is not affraid to create its own truths?
Hint: Big Brother is Watching You.
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don´t you mix up fact and fiction yourself here ?
oh c’mon, the big brother stuff is so exaggerated. yes they have a lot of info. yes they can do bad stuff with that info. but to say that “one entity controls the flow of information” is a huge, huge, huge exaggeration. there are other search engines, there are other social bookmarking tools, there is word of mouth, there are links on web pages.
agree with seog’s comment on this one.