egomaniac - 6:28 am on Dec 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

Between the cross-linking debacle and Florida, Florida wins as the WORST update.

Google has taken out dozens of sites in the categories I compete in. Some SEO'd, some not. I compete in a services category, and now the top of the SERPs are all dominated with pages from big name computer companies that don't sell such services to the public, and directory pages with little relevance.

The other day when I was actually using Google to search (instead of analyzing it), I found myself questioning the results more, and was having to refine my searches more.

I can always find what I want with Google as I usually search with 3-6 keywords plus modifiers. But I am not the average surfer. Most people I run into can't even open a new browser window, let alone add quotes to a portion of their search. These are the people who will start to notice a decline in Google over the coming weeks.

What really rips me about this is everything that I did for my site is visible to the user.

I hope the people at Yahoo are reading this. You've got a window of opportunity to make INK a real player again. Yahoo dump Google now, and start using INK.