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Wonder why that would be...
Wonder why I don't feel any pity myself?
Also, you think that Google will eventually make more, and more, and more people nervous...just like this guy?
My, has Friday come around again already. :)
I liked the "click here" link to tell bill robinson what to write about ... maybe thats how he got the idea an overwhelming outcry from citizens concerned about blogging
anyone have an approximate breakdown of where google search results come from ... google, yahoo, aol, and any others worthwhile to note?
The much-praised reputation mechanism that is supposed to ensure that bloggers remain true, honest and factually-correct is, in fact, just the rule of the mob, where those who shout loudest and get the most links are taken more seriously.It is the online equivalent of saying that The Sun newspaper always tells the truth because four million people read it, and The Guardian is intrinsically less trustworthy as it only sells half a million.
Sounds like he doesn't understand how pagerank works either.
Come to think of it, I don't blog, but I am very concerned. All those personal stories. All that data.
Should we regulate the rantings of the masses? Does Google have the right to aggregate and do something with all that data? Is it good?
Would journalists be out of work? Would a writer have nothing with which to write about?
Yes, I am concerned. Google's blogging ways need to be curtailed. The blogs must go.
Everybody - let's all chant - the blogs must go. lol.
it must be friday
...eventually make more, and more, and more people nervousJust like with any company that gets big but forgets the road how they got there...
I loved Microsoft. I thought they were the cream of the crop, until they started to loose sight in the rear-view mirror. Same with IBM, EDS, etc.
I think there are lot of people who get threatened by "power" that is not theirs.
As for regulating a search engine. G-d willing, I have a web site that is so big people ask for it to be regulated - I would rather pull the plug then allow the government (who, for example, turned 7 incompatible tax system into 16, in an attempt to consolidate) to tell me what to do.
wait - i think my boss is coming, ok, i'll stop. Did it help?
Is the world different? Google less threatening? Less powerful?
Nope. But - they are still cool. That counts for something, yes?
People always get scared by change...seems this journalist perhaps should have done a bit more research, instead of jumping on the 'fear bandwagon'.
Though maybe, just maybe, when I chanted, he knew, and it was good...
"as far from journalism as it is possible to get, with unsubstantiated rumour, prejudice and gossip masquerading as informed opinion. "
He should read his own words.
Heh! Good one, JG. Yes, that counts. To tell the truth, the most stunning news I've seen about google lately hasn't been about acquisitions, adwords, algos, APIs, blogs, IPOs, newsfeeds, pagerank, yada, yada, yada....
Two words: brand recognition.
He's 100% correct here. The only search engine that I watch and try to get listed in is Google.
I finally woke up, smelled the coffee, and now get a good bit of traffic there. INK is the *only* engine that drives traffic, and spiders as voraciously as Google.
If only 1 more engine would pick up on that idea, then we'd really have a game.
Yes, there's a good 5% to be flogged out of ASK in many markets, and since I went to flat/static pages, Lycos and Alltheweb have been steady producers, too.
For me one of the main points with the Internet is that it makes it very much more easy to exclude the middle man. Virtually anyone can create websites and as webmasters communicate directly to their audience. This is the reason why many journalists feel uneasy with www.
Search engines help me and other webmasters in this task. This is an important reason why many journalists feel uneasy with good search engines.
>>diversify
Seriously, as much as you can, diversify. Ink and Ask and anyone else you can get. But also diversify into non-SE sources of traffic.
Actually, I think it is number 4 or 5. Sheesh, they only have 15 employees, and I think they said 3 of those are part time.
"Today it's just bloggers - but tomorrow it's Microsoft and IBM!" (excerpted from the Chicken Little quote book).
Has anyone noticed the similarity of BLOG to BORG?
"Google is a privately-owned US company that has a policy of collecting as much information as possible about everyone who uses its search tool..."
Sheesh, I KNEW I should never have given Google my SS number and first born...
He would have got a lot more support had he fired his guns at guys like those.
Has this guy never heard of website log files before?
Run awaaaaaay! (Fetchez la vache...)
Bill seems to have referred to a few limited sources, maybe the crusading anti-google site and a coupla blogs and a few news releases, put 2 and 2 together and got 7, or at least the conclusion that the end of the world was nigh...
Heck.. even a blogger coulda done better in 30 mins...
