Comments on: Is Google Trading on the Hard Work of Business?

By: Peter Young

Peter Young — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:43:59 +0000

Great post. I think there is a huge lack of appreciation for ‘search path’ in search, many people just see last click and thats it, which is missing the bigger picture.

@all
Join the club – Guess its similar to thatgreat saying. Can’t live with em – can’t live without them

@Judith
Guess that means we will just have to evolve and stay one step ahead of the game

By: Judith Lewis 'deCabbit'

Judith Lewis 'deCabbit' — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:55:19 +0000

@Julie – it’s annoying and at times I hate Google and resent their dominance but then I think of IBM and Microsoft and others and realise what it was like when IBM was proprietary and with Microsoft having dominance and any change to the OS rendering someone elses software unsuable and I realise it still happens only not as dramatically. I once worked for a company who, if an OS change trialled in the dev program got rolled out, would have had to likely close as the software they sold would not have worked.
But hey – we love to hate them.,

@Keniki – released a bunny boiler? I know Google is innovative but I have yet to experience their kitchen appliances nor do I want the vast majority of their employees to try and dress like that *EVER* I’m going to have nightmares for weeks now from that mental image!

@Dan – yep – an entire industry has sprung up. What happens when they are ruled a monopoly and broken up? What will we do? We’ll all be unemployed!

By: Dan Horton SEO

Dan Horton SEO — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:37:44 +0000

Constant battle keeping up with the algo, but hey we all make money in search.

By: Keniki

Keniki — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:24:19 +0000

I think it was a mistake to use the tactics used in search engine wars to attack there own advertisers. There was an immaturatity and a sector of staff was allowed to run riot threaten entrepeneurs business’s and in my case plague them with threats and phone them all hours of the night.

Imagine how I felt here’s a company (google) I believed in had faith in loved to death and here’s one of there employees threatening my business my family and telling me I can never work online again. Sure I reacted badly, its not a logical thing you write into a business plan your advertiser your blood attacking you through some fucking psychopathic bunny boiler employee. Threatening your family, your life saying “I will leave you with Nothing” you don’t plan for that in business.

Its far from a love/hate relationship when you know Google released a “bunny boiler” on you. Its a extremely damaged relationship….

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:06:05 +0000

I miss the days when I could cloak the bejesus out of a site and have it rank within days, then stay there for months and months.

I have a love/hate relationship with them too. As much as their strict policies annoy the piss out of me, I do my work FOR them.