Comments on: Lets Call This Hypocrite Day Shall We?

By: Sire

Sire — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:09:11 +0000

I’ve always said that Google was hypocritical, but the problem is it’s their money and they make the rules. We either choose to follow them or not, and if not then we suffer the consequences.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:55:47 +0000

I came from Sarah’s website so first of all love your work.
Yes,hypocrite day should be awarded to google but even if something else came along we are still at its mercy.

I’ve had around 10 sites in the last 12 months drop from 5/10 to 3/10 for no apparent reason so Google is definately up to something and not telling us.

Can twitter make a big change?
Andrew

By: wonns

wonns — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:56:25 +0000

there would nothing remain the same. internet will evolve quick and fast, people will drive people, but in this case money will drive google.

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:55:43 +0000

I wish there was some kind of applaud icons on this comment box. Not only does donna have a valid post, but all of you who comment too. Someday the mighty giant will have to be tamed. hey I might start a boycott google campaign, but if I disappear please search for me, just not on google lol

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:14:48 +0000

Too be honest – I’m a bigger fan of Dogpile than Google. They support charitable causes and work with all independent search providers to give a good mix of results.

People are too lazy when it comes to search and want it all to be laid out for them in one engine. Problem is, Google, MSN and Yahoo all pick what shows up where.

Research is meant to be RESEARCH – so look around for solid results.

BTW – Dogpile.com just launched a new site called http://www.DoGreatGood.com – and their donating a portion of there revenue to Petfinder and the ASPCA.

Great that theres a way we can help dog adoption programs at no cost.

By: Lisa (kystorms)

Lisa (kystorms) — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:21:54 +0000

funny thing about Google, they are legally allowed to get away with WHAT ever they do, and there is NO OVERSIGHT period. What the hell is that about? Who is the person who would allow laws to be made, or people voted into elected office with out active laws to protect people? Google drives business now and there is not any control. I would love to see a few laws written about what they can do to innocent people who are supporting their family via paid links or in my case paid reviews. My husband is ill and can not work , so this is how I stay at home, care for my family and pay my bills. Each time Google does their page rank killing fields I lose rank, and so my pay per review drops. I do honest blogging, for two great and interesting topics but google hates me. I personally feel that they are out to destroy me and my family , yes I know… sounds paranoid but I dropped rank from 4/10 to now 2/10 inside of 6 months all because I write paid reviews. Now that so many are out of work, more will want to do reviews and what will happen to them? Google simply DOES NOT CARE about anyone needing to survive.,

I hate google,

By: Andre Leach

Andre Leach — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:39:51 +0000

Wicked post.

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By: Suspended disbelief

Suspended disbelief — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:17:34 +0000

It would be rather trivial for Google to ban all sites paying ads targeting the keywords “sell|buy links”! I tend to think that

As for buyers of links, why would they hire link builders that don’t rank in the top 50 results for those keywords anyway?

By: Chris Hooley

Chris Hooley — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:57:29 +0000

Google has become a very different company than they once were. I remember way back in the day (2 years ago) when everybody was clamoring for Google schwag, when SES San Jose was big *because* of the Google Dance, when people just loved their brand so much.

This is no longer the public’s perception of the media giant. Resentment, fear, loathing – and not just from the SEO community. It’s crap like this that makes people hate Google.

And tread carefully. My friend SnoopBloggyBlog had his site whacked for blogging out against Google’s big brand update. He never even actively built links for his site, so it was not whacked for shady SEO. He was whacked for calling the update “The Commmie Update”. Now he’s a PR 0.

Those kind of knee jerk reactions, and these kind of hypocritical actions, will cause even more strong resentment.

Google’s burning themselves. It’s sad. I just hope my sites don’t get whacked because of this comment…