Comments on: More Bad Press For Google.

By: A December To Remember : The Article Writer

A December To Remember : The Article Writer — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:35:29 +0000

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By: Is Google The New Terrorist? | Snoskred - Life in the Country

Is Google The New Terrorist? | Snoskred - Life in the Country — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:21:21 +0000

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By: Mighty Morgan

Mighty Morgan — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:20:56 +0000

As of the last few months i have been seeing a lot of bad press in relation to the “bullying” techniques that Google is becoming known for. I myself have not been around long enough to notice anything because honestly I have nothing to contrast it against.
I constantly use Google fro my own searches and 90% of my own traffic comes from them…so I wonder what side i will eventually have to take….although I feel more inclined to start using other search engines at this point oto start exploring other options….

By: hari

hari — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:36:23 +0000

never mind…

By: Kristy

Kristy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:52:35 +0000

Here are a few more links for ya:

http://wannabeawahm.blogspot.com/2007/11/unranked.html
http://awahmsblog.com/2007/11/16/google-alternatives/
http://awahmsblog.com/2007/11/17/google-alternatives-part-2/

I’ve read and enjoyed several of the others so far. Will be visiting and stumbling the remaining ones!

By: Sorry, Y’all, I’m not doing a Full Boycott | Sephy's Platzish

Sorry, Y’all, I’m not doing a Full Boycott | Sephy's Platzish — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:24:58 +0000

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By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:44:08 +0000

Thanks for linking me, Snoskred! I just realized a little while ago. I’m a little slow sometimes.

@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 even important. Wish I would’ve known sooner, because I have 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 blog, 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 that people are getting emotional. Imagine being a work-from-home-mom who can’t work outside the home because of illness (or another reason) and suddenly having your Christmas/Holiday mad money snatched right out from under you. I was a PR 2 for a split second at PPP and the opps for that pay way better than a PR 0. So, I potentially lost a lot of money that I may have been counting on to pay the light bill and buy presents for the kiddy (many other people were in fact counting on that money). Luckily for me I’m not in that particular boat, but my heart goes out to those that are. I’m just one more medical bill from pulling my hair out over this stuff. Google’s really sticking it to the bad guys, huh?

Again, thanks for the link, Snoskred. I really appreciate it.

By: cugat

cugat — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:38:41 +0000

Google is ok by me, but then I have a page rank of 3. When it hits 0 I’ll get on board with this Google bashing.

(I’m kidding of course. Boo to Google. I’ll switch to dogpile. Thanks for the great links.)

By: skeet

skeet — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:45:49 +0000

Mahalo for linking my post. I can’t read all of the posts you’ve listed - gotta have some time for my own blogging - but I’m reading some and gathering some solid info.

(Looking around. ) Nice place you’ve got here. I’ll be back.

By: hari

hari — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:43:46 +0000

Precisely Snoskred. People shouldn’t have used PR as a guide in the first place. It’s just a number that is used by google as ONE factor amidst many hundreds.

So while I agree that google have been extremely anti-competitive, I still don’t think bloggers should have put their full faith in PR as an indicator of importance.

After all, even advertisers will have to realize in the end that PR is nothing but a number of no consequence outside of google’s search engines. Ultimately the biggest way we bloggers get traffic 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 believe that anybody at google gives a whit about a few hundred or even thousand bloggers whining about it?