Google Owns an SEO Company! A simple Overlook or Google Hypocrisy?
According to SiteProNews, the popular search engine Google owns an SEO company. SiteProNews. Google has been a strong critical of SEO firms in the past and it often insists that its natural search results are fair and none sponsored. Google claims that it does not take money for natural search engine positioning and it does not expose its complex search algorithm to any company.
This is how it went down; Google acquired DoubleClick a while back, so it also inherited a SEO company owned by DoubleClicked called Performics. This has raised questions and doubts about Google’s sincerity about its fairness in organic search results. Google has also expressed that they have no plan of disposing the company.
So is this a simple overlook by Google? Does a big company like Google overlook such huge conflict of interest? Or is Google not practicing the words they preach and the old saying that “there is a price for everything” is completely relevant in this case?