outland88 - 7:54 pm on May 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

The question is do I think they’ll implement these load time penalties against those monster sites like Amazon, Shopzilla, or a thousand other comparsion sites that Google receives a hefty cash flow from. Well actually no more than they saddle those sites with bogus penalties in the regular search as compared to everybody else.

The devil is in the details and I’ve heard a thousand things that sound good. In the end it just sounded good nothing else.

My opinion is Google will set an artificial low load time that probably can be implemented on the fly even quicker than increasing rates on keywords. In fact they know in many cases implementing cost increases on many accounts can take up to a month where this can be done with pinging every 5 minutes. Plus the system is less exploitable as far as revenue is concerned when Google assigns costs to one variable. The problem for the average webmaster is this load time figure is highly volatile based upon a hundred variables.

Also the only reason I can see for implementation of this system by Google is the load times may effect Google being credited for a click with slower BB and DU that “breakaway” during the load.

Again I don’t see Google implementing this policy against its buddies. These companies will quickly let Google employees know at their daily luncheons together that they design for broadband and its unfair for Google to implement this policy against them in particular. Bottom line behind the scenes the general rank and file, who have no voice, will be saddled with the costs.

I’d like to see an opinion from the FTC on this for a change. Other than that it sounds “hunky dory”, “jim dandy”, wonderful.