site_muda - 11:15 pm on Feb 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

whether or not 50% of web surfers are looking to buy or get info isn't the real issue..the real issue is what Google was preaching all along which was it's "the content" people..
Now, if a "kw" (keyword not kilowatt) searched site comes in the top 10, it has basically no content for that "kw". Although it's an informative site or commercial site, it should not be there if a better commercial site with 100 pages or 1000 pgs. has a page with excellent content on that "kw" and it happens to sell the product too. This is what Google is doing now. There are more informative commercial sites out there than your non-commercial sites and they have been punished or AKA deceptively asked to use adwords.
sidebar- I receive efaxes via yahoo who now will not scan each fax for viruses..they want to join yahoo-plus for that feature....capitalism folks.. adapt, agree or die denouncing it...keyword Iraq..(clearing my throat)

So, has Google actually categorized all the "kw" for business or commercial and put in only info, org. or govt. results sites? no! it's a mixed bag..and a bad unorganized one at that.

I do find "kw" searches adwords ads to be more relevant?
The pay per clicks ROI will not last forever, it has become too expensive for some people but not for corporate america.

I guess soon enough we'll see that Google's monopolistic search results on the other search engines decrease in the coming months....supply and demand people...less demand for Google searches b/c of relevance equals less demand for Yahoo searches etal. So, hopefully Yahoo will use someone else.......fingers crossed....thank goodness

PS - maybe if I put some keywords in here it'll come up now. Yup, our search terms come up in forums, web classified ads that have expired...ho hum..