max_mm - 12:37 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

The Gbot reads thousands of pages per day on our system. Why in the world should we allow this if we get no return? To keep hope up? To see our nice pages cached? At the moment they even fail to list our website for its very unique name... This is not a hate thread or so - but if they are useless ... why in gods name should we deliver them our bandwith?

Ditto every word. Why on earth would someone want to spend so much bandwidth (daily) and get no visitors in return.

Maybe if more webmasters join forces and start taking actual action against this weird seismic google ups and downs (with absolute disregard to the impact it have on so many web sites/businesses). Maybe then the guys at google will think twice before shacking the boat too hard (SERPs and Adsense). Maybe then they will roll what ever algo changes they have SLOWLY.

They are using our content to deliver thier clients search results (and increase thier bottom line in the process). They do owe us somthing in return!

Sorry for the rant but i see nothing good in whatever google brought to this world except for cyber slavery for most of us webmaster. I already started removing the google search box and recommending MSN & Yahoo search to my visitors on all of my sites.

The google power over our lives is way too great, and i feel that something must be done about it.