James Delahunty
13 Sep 2011 2:27
Sir Brian Souter fuming over "mysterious" disappearance of his website in Google search results.
The Scottish businessman accused Google of stopping links to his website appearing when people search for it. He claims that on August 13, his site "mysteriously disappeared" from results returned for a search on "Brian Souter".
He has vowed to launch a campaign to stop search engine censorship. "It's not Google's place to decide which sites we can see and those we can't," he said in a statement. He asked Google in late August why his site disappeared from search results, and claimed they "mumbled" something about algorithm changes.
"Our search algorithm relies on more than 200 signals to help people find the answers they're looking for, and and last year alone we made more than 500 improvements to our algorithm, while experimenting with thousands more," Google said in a statement, reported by BBC.