Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I am a big fan of Google and all and I understand that they are improving their engine and all...but this is driving me insane! Every half and hour I am frantically looking to see if some one came to my site.
(Forget Google! Let's make our own search engine. We go some really smart people here don't we. We are the webmasters and we have been making websites for soooo long now, so we really know all the tricks of the trade and we can really differentiate the good sites from the bad. Let's make our own search engine ;-)
Okay, forgive my extremist immature paragraph on top.
My real question is, how do you go about getting your self some real traffic in these bad times. Basically I want something to work towards. This wait is driving me insane!
But if we are talking PPC, who cares about SERP quality and traffic without Google?
But if we are talking PPC, who cares about SERP quality and traffic without Google?
Google is a Web 1.0 company living on borrowed time. The static internet is fading fast.
The search engines are to exist. Do you think users will eventually stop using search engines and turn towards the social sites to ask "hey, i'm looking for x stuff.."? Nothing like that's going to happen.
Even if the trends slightly change, we can expect an innovations friendly company to adapt itself to meet the requirements of a changing internet. Let's recall, Google entered into Web 2.0 with Gmail, would they let their main pride (search engine) fade because you consider it Web 1.0 product?
What would a better 2.0 alternative be, del.icio.us? Think about it, would you rather try and find somthing via del.icio.us or Google :-)
--Illah
We are talking here as if this is a reality that lives up to the hype. It doesn't.
The only remaining attempt at a utopian ideal on the web is DMOZ, and that's a total shambles (they're living on borrowed time, not Google).
Whether we like it or not the social networking model cannot withstand an assault from a well-funded company. Google, MSN and Yahoo will pick clean the carcass of Web 2.0 and keep the bits that make them money or win them favor with their users.
As for the rest? It'll evaporate over time, especially blogs and del.icio.us clones. I mean, tagging is a total hassle and most blogs operate at a literary level below tabloid magazines. Hardly the basis for a global takeover.
