Google going strictly to paid search?

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[azlinda]

I have read and heard that in about a year, Google will only be showing paid search results. Has anyone else heard this? If so, it could be devastating to the little guys who don't have the budgets to ensure that they will show up in the search results. It has already become a problem with the paid results dominating the top of the page.

[Leosghost]

I have read and heard that

in about a year

where ? sources ?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Sounds like nonsense to me. They would have to block most of the Internet making their results useless.

[Marshall]

I have read and heard that in about a year, Google will only be showing paid search results.

Could you be referring to Google Shopping which comes out in the fall?

Marshall

[netmeg]

It probably is Google Shopping, or some hysterical reaction to Google Shopping going paid inclusion. I very much doubt it will happen to regular search.

THAT SAID.

Things Google cares about:

• Google
  
• Users
  
• Advertisers

Things Google doesn't care about:

• Webmasters
  
• Publishers

So going forward, don't base your entire business plan around Google. Because if G thinks that sh*tcanning Group Two will provide some greater good to Group One, hello, that thing parked over your head is the bus they just threw you under.

Be realistic. Google is a useful tool. But you never control it, and they don't care about your site and they don't care about your earnings.

[edited by: netmeg at 5:36 pm (utc) on Jun 15, 2012]

[Leosghost]

Because if G thinks that sh*tcanning Group Two will provide some greater good to Group One, hello, that thing parked over your head is the bus they just threw you under.

Now I have wine all over my keyboard :))

[IanCP]

Netmeg and Leosghost just made my bleak winter morning here.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Funny!

Leosghost you should not be drinking at work! Have you no respect for Health and Safety?

(And where I am we have a bleak winter morning just six days away from midsummer's day.) :(

[HuskyPup]

What was that "offering" Altavista had whereby one could pay to be top in their "regular" SERPs for selected keywords?

That's the way to go G...look it up somewhere and you'll be gone within 2 years.

In future netmeg should type a disclaimer for those drinking whilst supposedly at work...and the weather's crap because any UK government that allows drought orders ought to read-up their weather history and realise whenever they do that we always, absolutely always, have a deluge as soon as it's been announced.

[netmeg]

Well send that deluge over, cause we got fireworks being canceled left and right because of fire danger.

[JCKline]

The move to paid search would be the dumbest thing Google could do. They are not stupid enough to destroy one of their gold mines. There is no point in showing at the top of the results when nobody will be on Google to search.