crobb305 - 8:32 pm on Jan 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

Google has already screwed up....Look at the sandbox. I am constantly hearing from peers as well how google is not as good as it was just a year ago. Their Florida update was the first screw up and this last update was their second. Furthermore the sandbox is their third screw up with us webmasters. Webmasters have the ideal situation to help deter Google use because all we have to do is simply employ search engine's code on our webpages to promote the search engine of our choice. Surely if they keep pissing off webmasters with their sandboxing of sites they will lose our respect if they haven't already.

Don't forget about the pages hijacked via redirects. Google is often unable to discern original/intended urls from redirects. Originals subsequently get penalized/dropped. Yahoo corrected that issue within 60 days early in 2004. Google hasn't bothered to deal with it (certainly not in a "timely" manner). Who wants to use an engine full of redirects?