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Originally Posted by mjtaylor
...They have a right to try and stop it, but how does that make buying or selling the commodity they released on the open market, a matter of ethics?
I'm listening, MJ
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Google created this mess and now that it's falling apart, they are trying to save it. Simple as that. But it won't work, short of their current heavy-handed intrusion into the free market, nothing is going to impinge on the market as long as Google is the only game in town and they value back links.
We have three choices. Quit using Google so much so as to help diversify the market, fall in line with their rules or buck them and suffer the consequences if caught.
Or... come up with a better, more reliable method. That's what I've done and they are going to copy.
My toolbar reports
PR (I call mine 'penetration ratio') using the total number of people actually bookmarking the website. Scaled from 0-100, this metric cannot be bought or sold or influenced by any trading schemes. Your site simply must be bookmarked by others or it won't receive a high ranking. It parallels Google's PageRank very closely where link-selling/trading hasn't been involved.
Now, in case you haven't figured it out. This will be the next thing that Google 'invents'. They are going to use the information from their 'free' bookmarking service for Firefox to copy this technique and add it in with their current technology as soon as they have sucked in enough users to give them decent statistics to work with.
For more info:
Sync2It - The BookmarkSync Toolbar