BP now BUYING internet search terms misdirect people on search engines

[rkbergman]

SPILL OIL

BUY LITERATURE

 

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[ghost.prawn]

http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m6d6-BP-buys-Google-Yahoo-search-engine-words-to-keep-people-away-from-real-news-on-Gulf-oil-spill-disas

BP buys Google, Yahoo search words to keep people away from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster

In their most tenacious effort to control the

 

[nish81]

http://twitter.com/bpglobalpr

" By the way, we made it so if you google image search "oil spill" or "bp" you'll see some great celeb sideboob pics. #bpcares"

 

[Pootie]

hope they get their money back

 

[transistor]

what's the big deal?

 

[Dilbert Pickles]

I search "oil spill" on google and still got news results.

The only thing that changed is that www.BP.com/OilSpillNews is now the "Sponsored Link" at the top.

 

[Pootie]

anyone have any confirmation on this?

it's easy enough to check for yourself before you believe anything you hear

 

[HipHopHead]

and then?

 

[Hobie1]

Most of us who do that are trying to make money, not hide shit, but I'll keep this in mind if I ever do anything shady with my business/future businesses

 

[dangsdunks]

everyone should just click on it, itll cost them millions.

 

[Cicada]

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[Astringent]

What do you think they paid for?

You're not supposed to be able to bribe Google to alter their main search result rankings. What they pay for is Google adWords.

 

[Nebbo]

bid on search terms and how is this any different than other companies using Adwords?

 

[quid]

so BP will show high in the rankings for oil spill, and this is bad?

 

[Pulp Fiction]

them not fixing the massive problem they caused and being shady as shit

 

[zaink]

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[CPTMULLER]

anyone that is shocked by this is naive

 

[Barkode]

You're implying that they don't have billions

 

[Astringent]

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