BeeDeeDubbleU - 10:04 am on Feb 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

In the thread from last August that you mention Pageoneresults (perhaps prophetically) said ...

I have a feeling that if you want accurate analytics in the near future, Google is the one that will be giving it to us.

... and he may be right.

Regarding what Google is doing to your businesses, this reminds me of four or five years ago and the screams of anguish about big bad Google from those who had lost out every time there was an update.

The bottom line is that Google has no reponsibility to webmasters and their businesses. They are too busy running their own business for their stockholders and the advertisers who generate their revenue.

If the general public and the advertiser's are happy with Google's results then why would the anguished screams of a few webmasters bother them?