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<h1 style="text-align: center;">google is evil - part# - #</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a class="external" href="http://www.vivint.com/en/" target="_blank">Vivint</a>, the Utah based home automation company that also produces smart thermostats, found itself with a surprising new rival. <a class="external" href="http://www.wired.com/2014/01/googles-3-billion-nest-buy-finally-make-internet-things-real-us/" target="_blank">Google bought Nest</a> and by virtue of acquisition Vivint was suddenly competing head to head with the Silicon Valley search giant.</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;According to Vivint, Google said it had found external links into Vivint&rsquo;s website that sat outside of its &ldquo;quality guidelines,&rdquo; but Google wouldn&rsquo;t&nbsp; confirm what those links were. The company was left to fish in the dark to figure out what it had done to upset its rival, to identify the offending links were and make repeat requests for reinstatement</li>
<li>] When <a class="external" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/26/business/la-fi-tn-google-punishes-rapgenius-seo-tactics-20131226" target="_blank">Rap Genius was removed from Google&rsquo;s search results last year</a> for getting bloggers to link to its website in exchange for social media exposure, everything was ironed out within two weeks. Vivint&rsquo;s exile was much, much longer. The company finally started showing up on Google again this week &mdash; four months after it had disappeared.</li>
<li>] Google never communicated to them exactly what they&rsquo;d done wrong, or how they could fix it. He said that Vivint had managed to survive its time in the Google wilderness (its Bing and Yahoo search standing was unaffected) because of its extensive offline presence and large door-to-door sales force.</li>
<li>] Google wouldn&rsquo;t go into any detail about the length of Vivint&rsquo;s sentence, its lack of search transparency in helping it fix its wrongdoings and any perceived improprieties at it locking out a competitor for such a lengthy amount of time.</li>
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<li>&ldquo;We typically don&rsquo;t go into details on specific sites, but we&rsquo;re always working to improve the quality of search results for our users,&rdquo; - a Google spokesperson</li>
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<li>] according to the search data analysis tool <a class="external" href="http://www.semrush.com/" target="_blank">SEMrush</a>, Vivint&rsquo;s delisting had begun by January 29, just 16 days after Google&rsquo;s Nest sale was announced.</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li>] <a href="http://pando.com/2014/05/29/after-google-bought-nest-it-removed-one-of-the-companys-biggest-competitors-from-search-results/" target="_blank">http://pando.com/2014/05/29/after-google-bought-nest-it-removed-one-of-the-companys-biggest-competitors-from-search-results/</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2014-05-30</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] src = hn comments</li>
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