GoogleGuy Says - Google Ranking Info: June 29, 2003

Google does not penalize pop-ups

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GG clarifies that Google does not penalize site that use pop-up ads. Link to quote

GoogleGuy Says:
Fair points, Munster. Just to be clear, we don't penalize for pop-ups, even though some users have requested that.

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Stock quotes on Google

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GoogleGuy responds to member inquiring about some search queries including a stock quote link. Link to quote

GoogleGuy Says:
Stock symbols have been in there forever (couple years or so?). You can also just type in a stock symbol as a query, like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=askj

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Pop-ups penalized in Google?

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A member asks if Google penalizes sites for using pop-up ads. GG says no. Link to quote

GoogleGuy Says:
No, although many people ask for sites with pop-ups to be penalized.

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Sites with no title or snippets

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GG responds to a question about search results that only show the URL. Link to quote

GoogleGuy Says:
Or a site might be down when we tried to crawl it, etc. But it at least shows that we saw a reference to that page.

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