chiyo - 6:49 pm on Sep 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

bobmark, your paraphrasing of my post was incorrect and superficial.

I am trying to discuss why Google is being perceived as returning poor results when I personally cant see them. It is nothing to do with "liking Google", but facts and analysis, which you prefer to ignore in favour of twisting words. That Google seems to be getting better at returning good SERPs in some areas and seemingly poor in other areas may be a good clue to what the problem is. However you preferred to play with other's words so I think we may just have to agree to disagree.

Google is nowhere close to being a monopoly and if it was it would be trasient. Remember when AV dominated the free search arena?

And what are the practices that Google engaged in to become your "monopoly"? Did they aquire their competitors? Did they bribe there way into the yahoo contract or the AOL contract? All i can see is that they just provided a better service.

And no I'm not providing an analogy so you "get it" :)

[edited by: chiyo at 7:01 pm (utc) on Sep. 30, 2002]