xcoder - 6:19 am on Oct 14, 2012 (gmt 0)

Right. And I still think this is also why the SERPs have gotten so obscure. Google can afford to irritate searchers for a while; they can't afford to have the algo be straightforward enough for the government's probe to figure it out.

Knowledge engine OR search engine, they will still need to answer some very though questions, for example:

1) Why cant one change the default search provider on android systems...

2) Why one must enter a url in a Google box (only) on many android devices, there is no address box on the default browser over these devices... (galaxy S3 for example)

3) How come websites can get penalties and get thrown to page 950 but if they pay enough they can get to page one position one via the paid adwords program…

4) How come google content like images/video/books/shopping never gets any penalties and in 98% of cases is featured in top positions…

5) and many more questions along these lines… slippery slops are exactly what the name suggest.

“Search engine” or a “knowledge engine", with more then 70% web reach (and growing rapidly every day via android) they are still considered a monopole and will continue to be held accountable to their anti competitive practices, regardless of how they may describe themselves… with great power comes great responsibility and unfortunately it seems as they may have been abusing both for far too long…

P.S.
Obscuring the SERPs even further while goog properties are still top positions does not help their argument much either. It just gets much larger sharks more upset.

[edited by: xcoder at 6:50 am (utc) on Oct 14, 2012]