Google Haters Unite!

[incrediblehelp]

I know I have created a few article based threads today, but here is another. I found good one for all those Google bashers out there. If your a true Google hater you saw the Motley Fool article last week, Friday.

How Google Is Killing the Internet By Seth Jayson

I am little late on some of this news because I let my inbox got out of control last week, but I am caching up tonight and finding some good stuff.

Anyways the recently posted on my blog about enormous insider selling at Google of late. Seth starts the article by pointing this out:

insiders are continuing to drop shares on the public at a rate that boggles the mind. Here's just a brief peek at the latest tallies.

I bring it up only because I occasionally entertain the thought that Google has, in fact, destroyed the Internet. Well, not the physical Internet, mind you. Just the whole "looking for data" part of it that's key to Google's (alleged) information-based mission. The part that's held the key (so far) to its financial success.

It is so good to hear more traditional press learning of the pain we all feel with the SERPs at Google, Yahoo and MSN. I am not singling out Google here at all, it is obvious that you don't have to look to far to find examples of crap SERP's on all three and those that think one SE SERPS are better than the other have no rational way to prove it. Depending on the business your in, you SPAM findings will vary, but the fact is it is out there for all three.

Whether or not you believe that the junk sites out there peddling AdSense ads are honest commerce or capitalizing on large-scale click fraud, there's little doubt in my mind that we've got Google to thank for it.

Well no sh*t Sherlock. Why doesn't Google take a stronger stance on who actually uses AdSense on their websites is by far the biggest question I have. Doing this would eliminate so many issues that have cropped up in the past 3 years it is ridiculous.

So why doesn't Google do more to put the brakes on this problem? Interesting question, because it makes a couple of assumptions that I find faulty.

The first is that Google can stop it. I don't buy that. I think when you pit a few hundred Google Smarty Pantses -- who are getting fat on stock options and gourmet meals at the Big Goo campus -- against many thousand enterprising schemers on the Internet, the battle will go to those hungry schemers every time.

LOL, of course and Google gives schemers the key to success. Take away this key now!. Audit AdSense members/users NOW! Sure they say they do and I have even had one of my websites get a "request to remove AdSense" from Google and I did, but this is not happening enough.

That's not much of a concern for the press out there, which is blissfully unaware of its prime position as Most Likely to Be Head Dupe in Google's hype machine. All the newsroom knows is that Google is prime headline fodder, and more importantly, it's not Microsoft, so everything it does must be worthy of ink.

And this is problem. Your guess is good as mine as to why other search engines don't attack the integrity of AdSense more.

[greeneagle]

Good article, Jaan.

Nice catch.

That is some awfully heavy insider trading.

Ken

[pemburung]

I've been amused for quite a while that G (and others) tell us that they are pushed for space (or not, depends on who you decide to believe at G), and we read justifications on forums for not indexing everything due to this, when some decent percentage of the pages that cause the overload are crappy rubbish serving only to generate adsense and similar revenue. Get rid of them and there'd probably be room for all the real pages currently being dropped.

[incrediblehelp]

Speaking of comparing search relevancy Aaron at SEObook has great article on it everyone should check out.

[NameCritic]

due to sucking at link analysis they place too much weight on the page content

Author was talking about MSN there. Uh, what's wrong with looking at the page's content? I would think google needs more of that.

Talking about google,

heavily biases search results toward informational resources

He forgot to mention heavily focused on websites that have 0 content and adsense ads and a search box.

[pavelhlavsa]

Google is about money, any money any way. Google became a vehement, bit like Microsoft and it has to serve itself to stay alive. No matter what the methods are. It will do its best to stay within the law, but just to satisfy the law. No care for fairness and justice. Like they say; power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Now let’s have a look, did we make Google what it is today? I think so. We all guilty of been googlists. Happy googling guys.
Paul

[A. Smith]

Paul,
That's so funny, the whole time I was reading this thread, I was thinking of Microsoft! Same problem! I'd love to run Linux, but then so many things are for Windows platform (especially the kids' games), that you're kind of stuck with it.

[jackson992]

due to sucking at link analysis they place too much weight on the page content

Author was talking about MSN there. Uh, what's wrong with looking at the page's content? I would think google needs more of that.

Talking about google,

heavily biases search results toward informational resources

He forgot to mention heavily focused on websites that have 0 content and adsense ads and a search box.

Well said, that's why I love MSN. Google shuld follow their example.

[ctabuk]

Speaking of comparing search relevancy Aaron at SEObook has great article on it everyone should check out.

Many, many thanks Jaan

[Grokodile]

I was actually blathering about a similar issue on a blog of mine.

I suspect the problem is that with the ability to monetize traffic so readily apparent, and so easy, we have millions of people worldwide that are producing what I'm calling faux content.

These people don't care about the reader, they don't care about the content, they care only about one thing. Free traffic on SERPs. With that free traffic they can turn a buck by pushing users into Adsense ads.

Of course, since we all know how the search engines work, and they've published most of their algorithms, the hordes of money grubbing, lazy, no-content producing, crappy article republishing scam site owners have mushroomed.

If the current dinosaurs don't figure it out, some upstart will come along with much better and harder to fake quality metrics that will again gather the interest of the most users, stealing traffic from Google, MSN and Yahoo.

Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hey, we all get to have one. By the way, I'm in no way a Google hater, but I do see some worrying trends in the Internet industry.