wasmith - 12:53 am on Aug 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

My responce to his rant/rave:

I more than welcome new search engines and directories. My biggest problem with google is I depend on the traffic I get from it. I really would like to get more traffic from other sources but as soon as i get a link from a page with traffic, a month later google rings in with at least the same amount of traffic.

Although i can not fault google for being the best ... what would i be asking for? For google to provide poor quality results to give other search engines and directories a break?

Caching of pages: hmmm if we put google in the same catagory as an ISP, what about proxies? What about AOL? what about the internet backbone that transferes the copyrighted data? What about the browsers cache?

I am not sure where I stand on that issue. All i care about myself as a webmaster is the content is delievered as I created it, unmodified. I would like to have a count of people who viewed the page. But if I am not charging to view the page, and it is clearly identified as my page, Hmmm, just spliting hairs about the technology used to deliver a page I provide for free (or I don't charge for the page i pay to have it delivered)

As somebody searching google for information, I love the cached page. If i get a 404, the server is down, the server is slow, or the page is now about something newer; i hit the cache. The result of the cache is that when i search google i have no links to data that i can not view (I hate SERPs with content i can not view ! @%*$@& !)

Toolbar Maybe it is a bad thing to show to SEOs but for research. Life is not equal, Fair it should be but not equal. Different people statements get heard by more or less people depending on who it is ... blah, blah, blah ... As a webmaster i would rather George Bush talked about my site than a homeless person, nothing against the homeless person (and its not important if i like the homeless person more). When the leader of a superpower speaks lots of people listen. ... blah, blah, blah ... As a searcher, I like knowing if i am reading something that could be considered more [important¦viewed¦linked too].

In summary, _^_Catch up alternative search engines_^_.