• Econsultancy , Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:45 PM

Chris Lake is concerned about an anonymously penned article that appeared on Techcrunch calling for regulation of SEO and Google. Lake asserts the two should remain unregulated, and pooh-poohs the even "far more crazy" idea the writer proposes: that algorithm methodologies should be publicly disclosed. Doing so "would completely destroy any search engine that complied by allowing the spammers to bastardize the results," he writes.By spammers, Lake doesn't mean SEO professionals, who he believes are unfairly "castigated" in the article. "

Lake's 10 reasons why the idea of regulation "totally sucks" and is completely unworkable start by proclaiming "It's a free market. For God's sake, the minute you start inviting government to start calling the shots is the minute things go wrong."

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