inwaaaytoodeep - 12:00 pm on Aug 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

Quote from article!
"Brandt is not a disinterested party; the dispute between Daniel Brandt and Google is personal. He has spent thousands of hours building a Web site that he believes is both useful and important, and Google, in its algorithmic blindness, has given Brandt a lower page rank than he thinks he's entitled to. Brandt finds it genuinely hard to believe -- and even personally insulting -- that Google won't give him more credit"

Now this guy has a point, for example a number of sites I work with are quite varied. Google gives the BBC website a pagerank of 9 or 10 I think. Bottom line, webmasters at the BBC can put just about any keyword in their Title tag and take the listings. I've Seen queries where pages are completely made up of these.

The problem comes if you happen to be a webmaster with a site that crosses with a site that has a big PR value. And for this guy here I am completely with him. The fact that one article can cause such a big stir is I think a fair reflection on the staganation that is taking place a little as Google keeps the SEO community moist with new tools and features, which are good but so is keeping the head above water from a privacy point of view. It's all well and good being "touchy-feely" in your online communication but no-one ever complained about content that was written to inform. I think this guy is coming from the point of view of Google now seeming to hide a little behind "we are a dotty com" wheras they are actually collecting data and using it in the same way as any serious online business. Deception I get the feeling is his view?

Surely people here understand his point of view? Stop being so protective its only a search engine!