{"id":173,"date":"2003-01-12T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2003-01-12T23:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=173"},"modified":"2016-08-19T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:26:55","slug":"google_replies_to_searchk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/12\/google_replies_to_searchk\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Replies to SearchKing Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scriptingnews.userland.com\/backissues\/2003\/01\/12#When:7:49:01AM\">Dave Winer<\/a> links to an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/research.yale.edu\/lawmeme\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=807\">LawMeme article<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/research.yale.edu\/lawmeme\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=807\"><p>The PageRank values assigned by Google are not susceptible to being proved true or false by objective evidence. How could SearchKing ever &ldquo;prove&rdquo; that its ranking should &ldquo;truly&rdquo; be a 4 or a 6 or a 8? Certainly, Search King is not suggesting that each one of the billions of web pages ranked by Google are subject to another &ldquo;truer&rdquo; evaluation? If it believes so, it is certainly free to develop its own search services using the criteria it deems most appropriate.<\/p>\r\n<p>[&hellip;]<\/p>\r\n<p>That said, the <i>policy<\/i> questions that SearchKing is raising are critically important.  Google has bceome hugely important to the Internet, and many are starting to ask <a href=\"http:\/\/research.yale.edu\/lawmeme\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=679\">whether the public interest demands special treatment<\/a>.  Perhaps a search engine is important enough to be treated as a regulated utility, the same way that water, gas, and the cables over which search requests travel are.  Google is good, most netizens seem to think, but what if it <i>weren&rsquo;t<\/i>?  What if it became an arbitrary dictator, raising up and throwing down web sites at will.  That&rsquo;s what SearchKing thinks Google has become <i>already<\/i>, or at least that&rsquo;s one major question raised by this suit.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer links to an interesting LawMeme article: The PageRank values assigned by Google are not susceptible to being proved true or false by objective evidence. How could SearchKing ever &ldquo;prove&rdquo; that its ranking should &ldquo;truly&rdquo; be a 4 or a 6 or a 8? Certainly, Search King is not suggesting that each one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,41,343],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-lawsuit","tag-search"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15605,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}