WebFusion - 8:52 pm on Aug 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

Now let me ask you this simple question. Do you believe that Google is organizing or attempting to controlling the world´s information?

Google may be attempting to dominate market share, but no one entity CONTROLS the world's information.

The heart of the matter here (as we all would admit if we were really being honest) isn't some hypothetical argument about google "controlling" the flow of information, it's about google controlling the flow of money into your pocket.

I "lost" about $6k a month in adsense revenue when a older content site of mine took a nose dive in google's serps on July 16th, but the site wasn't "cut off" from the world reaching it. Plenty still find it via other engines/links/bookmarks, etc...allowing to still earn a nive high four-figures per month.

Having saig that...let's suppose you're right, and google is "controlling" the flow of information. What do you propose to do about it? Your argument has already been effectively invalidated in US courts. It's the users that drive google, not us. If and when the users move onto the next "new thing" in search, then and only then will the pie get sliced up a bit more.

Having said that....there are still far too many webmasters whose businesses can be made or broken by google. But that's their fault, not google's.