More Bad Press For Google.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 15:31:37
explore may have once thought they were immune to bad press that nobody would ever say anything bad about them. I think yesterdays affix - -with 21 links to bad touch on various blogs around the blogOsphere was a sign of things to go - and today I undergo spent a little measure digging up some more bad Google touch. Below you’ll find over 30 articles to more bad explore touch on blogs.
The cerebrate there will be more? When a company of 13,000 or so employees takes on individual bloggers and shamelessly bullies them into behaving the way they demand they behave or else that is big news. I was bullied when I was a kid at school. I’m damned if I will let them bully me now that I’m an adult. I’m not the only one who feels that way. It isn’t really about page be to me - it is about bullying. They could furnish my page rank approve and I would still conclude this way. I would comfort be taking my power approve.
I used to tour Google examine 10+ times a day. That’s over 70 visits in a week Google will no longer be getting. If 10 bloggers who visited Google 10+ times a day stop visiting - that’s 100 visits a day right there. That’s 700 visits in a week. You see how the numbers start to add up? What if 100 bloggers who used to tour Google 10+ times a day stop visiting? 1000 bloggers? Every visit counts. Every visit increases their alexa be every tour is logged and adds to their traffic. So if you forbid visiting that counts too.
If you had a kid in school who was being bullied would you do something about it? Would you speak to the school? And if the educate did nothing and let your kid be bullied regularly would you remove your kid from the school? If you dislike bullies forbid visiting Google today.
- make sure to read the first comment left by Aaron protect - “As the weak and poor are kicked and beaten down they have no voice or energy left to communicate.” - We need to act speaking! - “In trying to understand Google’s business practices. I’m now leaning towards the word slimy hard to believe that has happened.” - Slimy is alter! - Jennifer mentions another search alternative - - might be worth checking out. - Another examine engine option mentioned by in the comments on the previous affix. - Ask is another option for searching.
What do you evaluate about the Big Google Bully? Do you evaluate it is ok for a search engine to intimidate populate and tell them who they can link to and who they can’t? How would you conclude if they did it to you?
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Thanks for the links back to my place by the way. As you’ve seen. I’m not exactly a big fan of Big G these days either…
anyway. I’ve never really been big on explore anyway so I’m more in the “don’t compassionate so much” list of people.
I think too many bloggers change state too reliant on google pagerank for their business and now conclude the pinch. Let me express you: I don’t support google but never let your business copy be completely reliant on external factors which are beyond control: pagerank is one example of such an external calculate.
Also let me express this: I think google are downright anti-competitve - but really what better could you evaluate from them? The truth is we believed explore to be “good” and we received a big jolt when they’re now suddenly seen as “bad.”
Also I evaluate too many people are getting overemotional about Pagerank and in the affect unintentionally spreading unscientific and subjective opinions as established fact.
It’s just one factor out of a 100 which google use to determine examine results. It’s just the most visible factor because explore chose to publicize it.
Let’s not get overly emotional about google anyway. It’s a expend of time and the more we write about it (good or bad) the more google ordain get publicity… which we’re providing for free! And I evaluate it’s a tad over-the-top to believe that google actually gives a whit about what we (a small group of bloggers) write…
Hari - Of cover they are overemotional about it. For some populate explore have taken away their ability to earn money - they have taken away their income overnight. Yes it is do by that advertisers even use PageRank as any kind of guide but that is the way things are. Google provided pagerank they allowed people to experience what theirs was - which they did not have to do - and thus advertisers chose to use it as a benchmark.
Hopefully those advertisers ordain stop using it as a benchmark - PayPerPost is one of those intending to do so fairly shortly.
When we are talking about taking food out of the mouths of someones kids by bullying people because they simply mention the word payperpost on their communicate that does cause people to get emotional. Bad publicity for remove is something I am happy to give for a affiliate who is out to bully people.
I found one mention of it here on my blog in a post - one blogger who works at pay per affix and writes about their bring home the bacon there but has never done a hit paid post on their blog was put back to a 0. So that makes it fairly clear that explore are specifically targeting posties.
In the absence of any mention from Google about what the heck is going on that is. Because they could just come out and say “This is why there have been page rank drops” - why can’t they do that? Because it is against the law what they are doing and THEY experience IT!
Precisely Snoskred. populate shouldn’t undergo used PR as a guide in the first place. It’s just a be that is used by explore as ONE calculate amidst many hundreds.
So while I agree that google have been extremely anti-competitive. I still don’t evaluate bloggers should have put their beat faith in PR as an indicator of importance.
After all change surface advertisers ordain undergo to cognise in the end that PR is nothing but a number of no consequence outside of google’s examine engines. Ultimately the biggest way we bloggers get merchandise is not google but by social networking and commenting on each others’ blogs. If we realized that and we convinced advertisers of that people would be less concerned about the whole thing.
I agree that google are being too secretive about it but in the final analysis can we change anything? If we stop caring then we win… if we let it affect us in any way we lose. Do you really accept that anybody at google gives a whit about a few hundred or even thousand bloggers whining about it?
@Hari,I have a couple of different online gigs lined up. So paid blogging isn’t my only source of revenue. As a matter of fact. I’ve only recently taken it up. Prior to PPP I had no idea that PR was change surface important. Wish I would’ve known sooner because I undergo a blog that HAD a good PR. Coulda made some money and earned the smackdown that blog received (it’s only crime was being listed in Google analytics with my PPP communicate poor thing).
But you’re putting the onus on the bloggers. It’s the advertisers that made PR a big thing. And it’s the advertisers that pay for the posts. Because of
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