Hi gain all (G),
no you’re right G, about the finding a better SE. I doubt it will happen soon.
But if Google is not made to be accountable for such actions … at least let them know we’re aware and not happy about it … I fear it will get more blatant as time goes on.
It is ad supported, but that’s what the right side of the results are for, and I can tell you personally (though I think Paul was there with his wallet out right next to me … at least for a while) … that google does just fine with what they make on adwords and their other enterprises … they don’t need to be pushing their own agenda so that it does what I’d call being just short of virtual plagurism
Anything but the original at the top of the results for that search of almost a paragraph of text is plagurism because its saying this IS the original copy of the story, you don’t need search any further.
I mean how can a copy be more important than the real thing? There is no logic possible to explain a copy ranking above an original with exception that perhaps the original is setting on a page with malicious script on it etc.
Google themselves by their actions have proven duplicate content is at very least only worthy of their supplemental results … yet now when its to their benefit then duplicate content actually allows it to rank above the original.
That ain’t right on a lot of levels and to me its not about money but about them being fair for the sake of being fair, and for the sake of providing most relevant results and those will always be with the original author’s version.