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I totally agree.
I was an early adopter of Google. Now I'm an early re-adopter of Yahoo. It seems to display the most relevant, up-to-date search engine results these days. Kind of like Google was a year ago.
I second that. BTW, MSN has started getting better and better but it still can't surpass Yahoo and Google.
The problem is that while Google still remains on top of the market we will have to optimize for it. I personally wouldn't like loosing between 50 and 60% of my traffic.
Just like Internet Explorer is hell for my coding, I think Google will end up the same. But, like I said, both IExplore and Google have the majority so we must comply. For now!
I don't know what Google's problem is, but if I had to guess, I'd say they have overthought everything.
I'd guess that an even bigger reason is the explosive growth of the Web, and of template-based "button-pusher" sites that flood the Web with millions of scraper pages, affiliate pages, "review this topic" pages, etc. for every imaginable keyword and keyphrase. In such an environment, how can a general-purpose search index be expected to return decent results for anything but the most esoteric keyphrases?
I think Google needs to make some hard decisions about what constitutes "information" or "content" and about whether a single, giant, general-purpose index will continue to attract and retain users in the years ahead. At some point, organized chaos simply becomes chaos.
I'd say they have overthought everything. It's likely part of the natural cyclical process of getting too many PhDs into a room together.
I have been thinking the same thing for a while... Hey Google, you are a publicly traded company who is there to make money for stockholders. Listen to your adwords guys more...they are great and really have it nailed. You are not the Republic of the Web and Joe surfer doesn't care if a site appeared in the SERPs because they used spam techniques. Joe surfer just cares if they find the product, service or information that they were looking for.
Done with my rant.
I recently ran a little experiment with a newly launched site (it's mine). I had 40 friends install the Alexa toolbar and place my site's index as their homepage for 5 or 6 days. The ranking went down from 4 million to just under 1 - in just one week.
I think these measurements are somewhat accurate under the 10.000 number, but even some of those could be inflated easily!
It is very unprofessional for Google not to make a comment on this Pagerank to the public, they are not a private organization anymore.
No comment means one of two things
1) There is a problem they won't admit and are unprofessional about reporting it
2) They rid themselves of Pagerank technology but never told the webmasters, the very same people they keep coming on here and asking to give them feedback all the time, UNPROFESSIONAL slap in the face to webmasters... as I have stated before, you all keep telling everyone on these forums how to SEO and tell Google how we SEO and in the end we all loose Google gains... do you really think they care about any of you.. look at the way this is being handled.
I wish there were a smarter bunch of webmasters in the world. Wake up people.
PS - For #*$!x sake don't edit the goods in this post... as I said it is straight out how it is.
Hollywood
1 - Google just updated a new version of the Google bar with a slot for page rank indicator in it.
2 - The server went offline last friday, just after some major update got stabilised.
So just let those guys in California sip their coffee while the server is working offline.
Just stop the panic!
Can we all survive without pagerank indications for a couple of days?
(snip)
Unfortunately, we do not have a solution to pass along at this time. Our Toolbar Engineering Team is investigating this issue, and we hope to release an improved version of the PageRank feature in the future. In the meantime, we would recommend that you disable PageRank by performing the steps below: (snip)
It is very unprofessional for Google not to make a comment on this Pagerank to the public, they are not a private organization anymore.
Totally agree with that. It means they don't care with webmasters and shareholders.
