Why I won't be using Google in January

<i>Instead of taking a look into their OWN issues- they knock Rap Genius off the front page.<p>cough cough did someone say censorship?</i><p>What?<p>RG cheated. RG was punished for cheating. If everyone cheats, the system breaks and that&#x27;s bad for everyone.

Everyone is free to use whatever search engine they wish to use. Google isn&#x27;t forcing you to use them.<p>That being said, Google has pretty clear guidelines about what it will accept and what will result in a penalty. RG knowingly broke google&#x27;s rules. They got penalized. That simple.

Is it okay for a site to use black-hat tactics to rise to the top because they&#x27;ve got the &#x27;best&#x27; content?<p>If they&#x27;ve got the best content, shouldn&#x27;t it rise to the top organically? Or is the argument that &#x27;everyone else is doing it, so if we don&#x27;t do it, our organic rank will be jeopardized&#x27;?

Are people from RG creating accounts on YC and trying to fight the after math of a tsunami?<p>I&#x27;m not going to stop using Google because they caught someone red handed cheating the system. This is crazy.