atlrus - 9:16 pm on May 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

Well, I see a few tendencies already showing here:

a.) Most people do NOT seem to run a business of any kind, but do exactly what they say Google does wrong - redirect traffic (through affiliation, MFA etc.). If you were to sell a product or a service, let's say chocolate - you would not build your online business around search engines, but around marketing. Every smart businessman knows that marketing is the first and most important factor in starting a business - buy PPC, banners, links, offline ads, etc. I just do not understand why anyone would assume that free traffic MUST be provided to every website in the world?!?

b.) Most people complain about Google scraping their websites, and yet, they do NOT spend 5 sec. to put a disallow and move on with their life, proud of solving this painfull issue.

c.) You forget that EVERY person with Internet connection knows that Google provides nothing more than links to OTHER websites.

[edited by: tedster at 9:21 pm (utc) on May 10, 2007]