Thanks Google for everything (pun intended)

[softwareengineer99]

First, a comment by alipi that I found on Matt's blog and really wanted to share:

Matt i feel sorry for the world of Information Technology ,i feel sorry for webmasters that have spend years of work making your employers rich by using stolen content from those webmasters,i feel sorry for you that you have to be a silly maskarated idiot for Google’s Public Relation purposes,I feel sorry that you and your conpadres are doing the same think like the 3d reich did(creating quinslings) ,I feel sorry why our fathers fight for freedom and Democracy in the 40’s ….for what ? just to see a new status qvo under the name Google or PAX GOOGLANA ?or PAX AMERICANA?
PS:you know who i am because in your Great New World there is no way that you can hide you ID.But to tell you my dear “I don’t give a damn”
I haven’t done anything wrong exept that having a page that made me some money and you bas£%^rds destroyed whith no reason ,or maybe i was a small guy,I hope God will pay you back one day.I believe in God .
PS2)I have copyed that message if you will not post it that means you are a ploker and i will post it in webmasterworld.

Whoa! I guess some people are really hit hard.

Sometime ago I subscribed to Google Alerts for certain keywords just to try out. Yesterday, I got some Google Alerts for those keywords. Most of the sites added to Google according to the alerts have a URL of the following format

http://67363.a.x23.ext/
http://47246.e.nf1.ext/
http://80915.b.ni3.ext/

(I have changed the digits and letters in the keywords mentioned in this post)
Amazingly these sites are ranking good for some keywords.

IMO, Google has lost it completely. Spam sites are everywhere and many legitimate sites are nowhere to be found. Its just a matter of time when people will find a totally dysfunctional web full of sites like x23.info and n83.info

Unless you want to find shopping deals and sites using the ads, good luck. Try [prada 06d] on Google and checkout the first couple of results. I mean why the heck would anyone in US be interested in a non-english .be and .it site? Where is geo-tageting and "smartness" of Googlers? Oh, I get it, its only for ads and not for regular SERPs.

And yesterday, I heard that Google is charging a company an undisclosed amount of money to create their image online. IMHO, Google should first focus on their fast deteriorating image and then focus on helping other companies.

Google's index these days reminds me of spam TGPs that used to be all over the Internet just a couple of years ago. Seems like instead of growing, the web has actually shrunk. Thanks Google.

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