ABC News Uses Nbc News For Search Results

WebNewser’s David Cohen exposes some search skulduggery apparently on the part of ABCNews.com:

when a Google search was done on “NBC News,” the result in the top sponsored link contained the headline, “Nbc News,” but the URL said “ABCNews.go.com”

And while buying your competition is perfectly legit, the link should not have been called “Nbc News.” And after WebNewser asked about it, Google agreed…

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