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kleinbl00 · 1895 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results
There's a large, black line between SEO manipulation and top-down manipulation of the algorithm. On the one hand, you have a bottom-up organization altering their content to reflect the way they want Google to index their stuff. On the other hand, you have a top-down organization altering their algorithm to reflect the way they want to portray the world. And while the SEO guys have long argued that there are ways to make the algorithm work for you, the impartiality of the algorithm has been Google's cornerstone since their launch.