Re: How Many Legitimate Business Did Google Kill?
If you'd like to illustrate the point you are trying to make by trying to cause "harm" to a domain, use one of your own domains for that purpose. Whether not a person recognizes that "dangers" exist is one thing. Choosing not to live or operate in "fear" of them is quite another.
"Hey, how about if I try and hurt you?" "No thanks, I think I'll pass" And you call that fear? Openly offering to cause "harm" and being met by a polite "no thank you" is certainly not living in fear. That, quite frankly, is one of the most ridiculous conclusions I think I've heard. (all due respect)
"Google hurt this guy?" Hardly. They hurt themselves and Google even provided the means for them to see what one problems was. It's a text only cache. You think Google should have to contact every webmaster or site owner when their links can't be read as links? Is it Googles fault when a site owner or webmaster, of their own doing whether intentional or not, is serving up 2 different homepages? I suppose Google should contact all webmasters and inform that of that too? How about all the other SE's? Should they hold our hands too? Spoon feed us?
No, Google is certainly not perfect but I don't expect them to build my site for me nor do I expect them to contact me evertime the see an "issue" with one of my sites. Not their job. Want someone to do that for you? Hire someone who's good at it.
You seem to like to paint with a very broad brush. "People Online..." Sorry, but all people online are not blind to the potential problems they face. Assuming they do would be an error on your part IMO. Google a god? Your characterization of what they are or are you somehow suggesting that the rest of us see Google that way?
Clearly you are quite confused when it comes to me. I have on many occasions openly criticized things that Google has done. I am not a Google hater. I am not a Google worshipper either. Yet you've decided to label me. Clearly, you see things in black and white. "Hate" or "Worship". Try recognizing shades of grey. Many of us already do. (all due respect)
Business models adapt all the time. It's when they don't adapt when neccessary they can and do fail. Happens all the time. When a business model doesn't adapt, and fails, it's easy to blame someone else for its' failure.
If Google goes under and all the business models that derived the majority of their success on Google fail, it would be Googles fault isn't it? Yeah right.
It's easy to blame someone or someone else for a personal failure or mistake. That mistake can easily be a business model in which case they have noone to blame but themselves. Build a better model. Build a better understanding, a better knowledge base from which to draw from.
Dave
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