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Far be it from Google’s moral capability to randomly slap websites around when the office pie supply has reached a critical shortage, consequently halting the war and allowing employees to resume normal duties, rather than tactically and wastefully disposing of food by engaging each other through the use of indoor guerrilla fighting tactics. When the sound of pies flying, volleyballs being whacked, and massage chairs vibrating cease, Google employees are more than likely dishing out barrages of slaps, in what seems be some sort of twisted revenge it seems to insist on handing to its loyal users. First came the unbelievably stupid Adsense referral restrictions - reducing payouts, and cutting a sizable number of dedicated websites from a loop that was already spiraling down hill. Now comes Google’s PageRank surprise, in what must be among the largest volume of websites I’ve seen take a beating after an update. Needless to say, this blog received a PageRank downgrade (which was reasonable to expect when I went ahead and erased the posts made last year in a bid to regather focus by erasing the past), which really couldn’t bother me less as long as the PageRank number remains completely and utterly useless. I couldn’t help wondering why Google’s mood has been incredibly intolerant and rather snappy lately, and why on earth Yahoo or any other half sane competitor doesn’t step up their game and take advantage of the situation here. Let’s be realistic for a moment. I can’t see Yahoo ever returning to what it once was (popularity wise), and the thought of MSN being the leading search engine is as realistic as George Bush growing himself a brain - however the opportunity to seize a portion of the Adsense market is a possibility that cannot be ignored. The Yahoo Publisher Network started off with a massive hype campaign being carried by it’s very own users, which is obviously a good sign, however as the service matured they have managed to drive themselves downhill, with a decline in their rate of pay, and have yet to allow international users access to the network. I mean come on guys, why would those of us you’d actually accept into the network, switch to something even crappier than Adsense? I must admit that the MSN network is becoming an alternative I may just consider looking into, as there seems to be a lot of industry talk regarding their effectiveness. I still believe MSN can up its game, and get a little more aggressive with Google, by somehow throwing money at the problem to fix it (hopefully our much beloved Microsoft will have some left after they foot the bill for Vista Call me arrogant (please don’t, I’m sensitive What do you think? Is Google going a little too far with Adsense, and the latest PageRank update? Are we growing to expect too much of the company, or am I being unreasonable here? I understand that the number of people trying to game the search engine must be astronomical however with the amount of money power and dollars the company has, there has to be a way to counter the problem without affecting the genuine users. I’d love to hear your opinion. |
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January 17th, 2008 at 5:26 am
All things are circular in nature. Google is the top dog now, they won’t be forever. I remember having an AOL email account and thinking I would never change it. But, wait, now I have Gmail… Hmm…
January 17th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Google has become too powerful no doubt about it . Google has the power to virtually switch of the Internet. think about it. without Google most of us would be stumbling in the dark.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Seems like a double standard… Why care about the pagerank if you feel they are useless. Google at the moment is the internet leader and to the victor goes the spoils. However, leaders get overthrown everyday.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
PageRank itself isn’t the issue. The issue i was conveying in the article is Google’s attitude towards its users, and how it seems to be going crazy with dishing out slaps as of lately. Leaders get overthrown everyday, except if you’re Google :twisted:.
January 17th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I think if PageRank is such a debacle, then advertisers should stop using it as a method to judge sites. From what I’ve seen, it’s the sellers getting the penalties and the advertisers still doing the selling. Convince them that PR is worthless and Google won’t have such a stranglehold on that part of the blogosphere.
Personally, I have no problems with Google. I don’t care about PR because I’m not selling anything. I have see some really good bloggers get upset about what’s happening to them though and that’s irritating. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with monetizing a site, but I do think there’s something wrong with determining the worth of those sites.
Just my 2¢
January 19th, 2008 at 3:54 am
There is no such thing as “too powerful” or “too large” of a company. This is the United States of America — the greatest superpower the planet has ever known. As we plod into the first weeks of 2008, I salute everyone at Google for doing exactly what they’ve done and I support anything they do aside from global censorship stuff.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
I definitely think Google is taking advantage of their dominating presence in the web space, perhaps they are getting greedy? I’m a big lover and hater of Google (see my blog post: Ten Reasons I Love/Hate Google). Maybe they think since they are the leader, they can slack on their customer service for a little.
Regardless, I believe MSN has a great amount of potential. The percentage of overall web traffic MSN search carries is increasing every year. I feel they are more gradual climbers- they test before they launch, making them a little slower moving (of course they should have held off on releasing Vista. Really. They could do better). Where as Google tests BY launching. They are indeed very different. And I don’t think Google is going anywhere. But everything Bill Gate touches turns to gold. So watch out.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Marketers made Google and marketers can take them down. Do not misjudge the economic power of bloggers who have been smacked. I am boycotting Google. Took them off my search bar, do not write about them, no adsense, no analytics, no gmail. As soon as I can, I am off Blogger with all my blogs.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:16 am
You’re boycotting Google? That’s like boycotting Microsoft. I applaud your passion, but I personally believe Google is one of those companies that will own things that don’t even have the Google name on it, so you may be using something owned by the company you’re boycotting without realizing it.
Good luck with your venture. I wish you all the luck!