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title: Google-watch
date: "2002-08-31T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1194
description: I share my thoughts on Google-watch, a site criticizing Google's privacy and search fairness. While I value good results, I agree that PageRank often hides relevant recent updates or smaller sites I'd like to see.
keywords: [google-watch, pagerank, search engine algorithms, data privacy, web indexing, search results]
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[Google-watch](http://www.google-watch.org/) is against Google, because they're unfair, and don't respect privacy (via [Salon](http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/index.html)). I still don't mind, as long as I get good search results. But this "unfair" part I kind-of agree with. Wish Google would search recently updated sites better. And they've also got a point about the ordering. Sometimes, I **would** like to see the "less important" (low pagerank) sites on top.