HOW CAN I GET RID OF A NEGATIVE REMARK ABOUT MY BUSINESS THAT SHOWS UP
(ON TOP)ON EVERY INTERNET SEARCH RESULT

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Clarification of Question by bzdc-ga on 28 Oct 2005 10:39 PDT

My main problem is that it shows up as the first result

I can understand if you don't want to specify the search criteria that
generates this result.

Do you know how the negative remark got there?  Is it fair comment? 
If not, have you ever instructed a lawyer?

I assume that the negative comment appears on one or more other sites,
not on a site under your direct control.  Have you tried contacting
the search engines on which this comment appears to see if there is
anything they can do.

Hope this might help.

I'll give you two answers, neither of which you're going to like, but
correctly answers the question.

1.  conduct your search eliminating the unwanted phrase by preceding
the search term with a negative (-) sign.

2.  ask each of the site owners of the pages that get returned to
remove the page from their site.

Not the answers you're hoping for, I know.

Search results are pages indexed by search engines.  Once indexed, the
only way they're going to be altered is the alteration of the page it
indexed.  The only way they are (eventually) going to fall off the
results is if the page no longer exists.  Other than that, they'll
likely stay there until the end of time (or the end of the search
engine, whichever comes first).

I don't know about a legal course of action you can take.  A negative
comment (like this movie stinks) is not exactly libel.

Unless you have a direct way of removing the negative comment you
can't. However you can make your own website more easily searched by
careful placement of metatags in the page and also think about
creating a page full of hyperlinks to each section of your website
(search-engines love them).

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ have some very good tutorials on
web-site search engine optimisation.

Hope this helps