Marketing_Guy - 11:46 am on Apr 16, 2012 (gmt 0)

Lumping in Apple and Facebook with governments which are oppressing their people is a pretty low blow IMO.

Brin said he and co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create Google if the internet was dominated by Facebook. "You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive," he said.

...make your site for users, not search engines (except when linking out or getting people to link to you, adding Meta information, using any technology search engines can't index, duplicating your own copy on multiple pages, expanding the copy on pages that don't need it for SEO purposes, reporting spam, reporting paid links, etc). Oh, and here's some free stuff (in exchange for information that you don't really need, know about, care about or value anyway).