scottg - 8:51 pm on Aug 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

@Snaptech and others...

I brought up PPC because I was trying to make a point. You get data from Google either directly from Google or through various third party tool that pull the date from Google in official or un-official ways, add it to the data you get from analytics, etc. The point is... you get the data. It's there to grab.

@tedster... I agree, we can omit brand names and such moving forward as this is moving in a different direction. I appreciate being able to post mine though... seeing as how 1) mine was used in the first place, 2) the title is still misleading, as the big G is not blocking it, 3) there are still people that will take anything I write or that the read from this thread and still think that G is "blocking" us, when they are not.

@pageoneresults "Now, back to me original question. Why have Google singled out WPG in their "official documentation" on this matter?"

That is an excellent question. I've been bugging Matt and co. about this for a while now. From Matt's blog because he won't email me privately about it...
matt:
July 15, 2008 @ 6:01 pm
“But overall Matt, is WebPosition “banned” from Google?”
Scott, the reason that WebPosition is mentioned in our guidelines is because of the sheer quantity of unwelcome queries that WP Gold used to send to Google to scrape Google’s rankings. I think we already covered this though.

This has a link over to here:
[groups.google.com...]

I have to thank Matt for responding, but he never answers the "why only this one company" part anytime I post a question to him. I'm guessing that short of working at Google, we'll never know. And even then... It makes me wonder if it's something like the (unnamed online news outlet banned because their reporter googled and wrote about public details of G's CEO...) grudge. But then again Google now says that there is no privacy... Who knows, it really makes my head spin and I'm just some noob in a cube.