<story><title>Google timer</title><url>https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin-adams</author><text>Interesting side effect.  There&amp;#x27;s this web site:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&amp;#x2F;timer&amp;#x2F;1hour&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;which comes up top of the google search results for &amp;quot;timer for 1 hour&amp;quot; for me.  Now there is absolutely no way they can compete with Google&amp;#x27;s own offering from an SEO perspective.&lt;p&gt;While this example is trivial to some extent, does it set a precedent that while you can advertise and compete with Google, they can always have the unfair advantage at being top of the list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ok_craig</author><text>Lesson: don&amp;#x27;t put to much stock into a product that can be replaced by a few lines of code on a search result page.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google timer</title><url>https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin-adams</author><text>Interesting side effect.  There&amp;#x27;s this web site:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&amp;#x2F;timer&amp;#x2F;1hour&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;which comes up top of the google search results for &amp;quot;timer for 1 hour&amp;quot; for me.  Now there is absolutely no way they can compete with Google&amp;#x27;s own offering from an SEO perspective.&lt;p&gt;While this example is trivial to some extent, does it set a precedent that while you can advertise and compete with Google, they can always have the unfair advantage at being top of the list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pioul</author><text>A precedent has already been set a while ago with Google&amp;#x27;s calculator [1], Knowledge Graph [2] and whatnot.&lt;p&gt;Search engines&amp;#x27; goal is to deliver information and services to their users as fast as possible. If they can provide those themselves, it&amp;#x27;s a win both for them and their users.&lt;p&gt;I wrote about it here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pioul.fr/dont-trust-search-engines-with-your-traffic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pioul.fr&amp;#x2F;dont-trust-search-engines-with-your-traffic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=1%2B1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=1%2B1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=banana&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=banana&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>