For anyone with the snark to post
"Google gives preferential treatment to itself," or that
"Google lets its own properties float to the top,"
I submit :
Suck it.
Google - as of 0317 19-Apr 2012 -0600 .. has blacklisted *itself* in iGoogle, because of Solsie.
I know people tend to be judgmental and/or assumptive, since Google seems to be "the best in class" for properties it owns, but IMHO this "oops" demonstrates that it in fact gives no preference to itself. Asserted: Google appears to be best-in-class, because, by its own standards, it is in fact best-in-class.
To wit: Exhibit A. Google Safe-browsing just alerted me - "Holy Crap - That's dangerous ground there, son" when I went to Google's iGoogle property.
It noticed, noted and via its own algorithms determined that Solsie, for one reason or another, is potentially (or actively) harmful, and by transitive property, I shouldn't trust the site that is including Google content.
In this case, that including site .. is Google.
I'm not a Google fan-boy; I still use Bing for shots Google hasn't gotten, and I use tons of APIs on my own turf to explore data either on the Dark Web or in "norobots"-land where most engines drop off.
It's more funny than anything; There's an engineer somewhere inside the Googleplex crapping his pants right now because their too-honest logic is alerting searchers to iGoogle that Google shouldn't be trusted at the moment.
Nuff said. Evidence attached/inline.
Party on, Garth.
-jamie
