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Google Anti-Evil Search Results - Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. posted an interesting post on The Official Google Blog today explaining that it has tweaked its search algorithms to pretty much demote businesses with extremely negative reviews. The company explains that it was forced to do that after The New York Times published a story last week showcasing the horrific business practices of a certain merchant — which we will not name or link to, as we would be promoting it. In essence, the merchant in question claimed that by mistreating customers to the point of threatening to kill and rape them, his business would become more prominent on Google and other search engines. You see, he believes in that saying that even “bad press is good press.” Only in this case, he was utilizing negative reviews to crawl up search rankings. The company goes on to explain that it considered various solutions such as blocking the website in question, using sentiment analysis that can ...