Forum Moderators: phranque
MSN - Bill Gates- saying "we will beat them" after not being able to buy them...
Teoma - Heavily ublicizing it's new algorithms that they say will surpass google (Subject-Specific PopularitySM )...
Google - going through some self-defeating "extreme" dancing / updates and decreasing their Relevancy and hurting a few innocent, dependant SEOs and Webmasters...
WHILE GOOGLE DID SPUR OTHER LACKADAISICAL
SEARCH ENGINES TO BECOME MORE PROACTIVE ABOUT REDUCING SPAM and increasing Relevance as well as adding more FEATURES...
How much is enough - will this Unpredictable
determination and EGO eventually turn people off - and force SEO into CUT-THROAT
SEM as the only reliable traffic...
Time will Tell
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that soon the internet will be all but re-invented, and anyone who will not conform to the new internet will fall away. I think that it'll get rid of all of those old and never updated sites, and all of those annoyances like spyware and popups.
In the meantime we can just hold on for the ride. In the end, I'm sure it'll be for the better. Though some people will turn away from the net, after the changes more and more people will come on. Eventually those who stopped going online will come back.
Reminds of my favorite ad sign (gambling?) on Time Square, NYC:
Too much is not enough!
:)
Yahoo dropping Google brought more competition to the industry and makes webmasters less dependent on the Google tactics you decry while giving users more choice in search engines. MSN may yet develop a good search tool - again, more choice, more competition, more options for webmasters to get their sites in front of people.
It seems to me that things are heading in the right direction - at least a better direction. :)
Physician...
Too much is not enough!
It's a John Barlow line from a Grateful Dead song:
It takes dynamite to get me up
Too much of everything is just enough
One more thing that I gotta say
I need a miracle every day.
Tom
