superclown2 - 3:08 pm on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0)

increasingly it seems to me like there are quite a few pensioners around here who have written something on a static html page in 1998, enjoyed steady rankings in google serps and income from google ads for years and years, got fat and lazy and when things took a turn do nothing but bite the hand that fed them.

I confess I got fat - I'm working on it - but lazy, no way, this is a hard business and those who don't keep up go under quickly.

but i said that in the first place, because since some time, i'm an operator of a search engine with massive user generated content myself. if i would be responsible for all that stuff, i would have to close down, simple as that.

So, like the rest of us, you'd have to adapt or go under. The world doesn't owe a living to search engine operators any more than it does to webmasters.