Reno - 1:48 pm on Jul 17, 2011 (gmt 0)

Almost every day I see a bold headline on the opening page of Google News about their +1 service. That's not a surprise or particularly troubling ~ it's an obvious way for them to promote it ~ but still, I find it hard to believe with everything going on in the world, this ends up as one of the "Top Stories" on a regular basis. It goes to prove, lest there be any doubt, that they can insert whatever they want at the top level; and if they insert their own promotions here, it's only a minor stretch to realize they can do it for search as well ~ thus all the YouTube's & etc getting top ranking. So, I don't buy the public pronouncements that everything is algo generated without any influence of Google engineers. Sorry, that simply contradicts what I consistently see for myself. It may be algo generated, but the algo is set to promote themselves ... and as I said, that's no surprise.

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