The Register has a story that is headlined UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High Court evidence. This is around a case going on since 2006 with Foundem, where Foundem says Google favors those who advertise in the organic results.

So the UK judge tells Google either drop your defense citing your algorithm doesn’t do that or share your algorithm with the defense. Google isn’t going to share its ranking algorithm with anyone outside of Google and I doubt Google will drop that portion of the defense.

The article says:

This is going to be fun.

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