Google's rapid response to a New York Times story last week about unscrupulous e-commerce company DecorMyEyes has garnered significant attention over the past few days. That's not just for the shocking nature of the abusive eyewear vendor's behavior, but also for Google's admission that the story uncovered a weakness in its page ranking algorithm.
"We were horrified to read about Ms. Rodriguez's dreadful experience," wrote Google Fellow Amit Singhal on the Official Google Blog Wenesday. "We immediately convened a team that looked carefully at the issue. That team developed an initial algorithmic solution, implemented it, and the solution is already live."

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