Comments on: My Love Affair With Google Might Just Be Over

By: Erica DeWolf

Erica DeWolf — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:16:09 +0000

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!

By: CyberCelt

CyberCelt — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:49:49 +0000

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.

By: Erica DeWolf

Erica DeWolf — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:53:14 +0000

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.

By: Richard Ward

Richard Ward — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:54:00 +0000

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.

By: Jennyjinx

Jennyjinx — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:28:14 +0000

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¢

By: JKhoury

JKhoury — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:41:52 +0000

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:.

By: PLAYTHERE.com

PLAYTHERE.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:05:58 +0000

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.

By: Alfred Saforo

Alfred Saforo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:16:39 +0000

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.

By: StanHayes

StanHayes — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:26:32 +0000

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…