Comments on: What Happened To Google’s ‘Commitment To Transparency’? http://searchengineland.com/what-happened-to-googles-commitment-to-transparency-22524 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sean http://searchengineland.com/what-happened-to-googles-commitment-to-transparency-22524/comment-page-1#comment-6260 sean Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:29:39 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=22524#comment-6260 In Google's defense, I do seem to remember a message years back appearing when stop words were ignored. That the message now appears at the bottom of the page rather than at the top may be a bone of contention, but I wouldn't argue that Google isn't being transparent. Most people probably don't know what a stop word is nor would they want to know. What I do find strange is that what is good for the gander isn't good for the goose. You can get traffic details from Google for any website except google.* e.g. http://trends.google.com/websites?q=google.com%2C+bing.com%2C+yahoo.com%2C+ask.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=1 In Google’s defense, I do seem to remember a message years back appearing when stop words were ignored. That the message now appears at the bottom of the page rather than at the top may be a bone of contention, but I wouldn’t argue that Google isn’t being transparent. Most people probably don’t know what a stop word is nor would they want to know.

What I do find strange is that what is good for the gander isn’t good for the goose. You can get traffic details from Google for any website except google.* e.g. http://trends.google.com/websites?q=google.com%2C+bing.com%2C+yahoo.com%2C+ask.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=1

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