I used to be a bigger Google fan than I am now, and it's all because of this pagerank/link business.
It's fine to have an algorithm to prioritize sites. And it's fine for sites to manipulate that algorithm to their own ends. Both of these things are completely natural.
Trying to keep this list of who's cool or not -- secretly updated by god knows who -- and forcing the rest of the world to do as you say or suffer economic punishment by de-listing from your engine? Not fine, although Google is certainly in their rights to do so.
A better strategy is for Google to adapt, not dictate. As it is, they've created this entire system where everybody games the system but nobody talks about it, and that's counterproductive for the net as a whole.
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I used to be a bigger Google fan than I am now, and it's all because of this pagerank/link business.
It's fine to have an algorithm to prioritize sites. And it's fine for sites to manipulate that algorithm to their own ends. Both of these things are completely natural.
Trying to keep this list of who's cool or not -- secretly updated by god knows who -- and forcing the rest of the world to do as you say or suffer economic punishment by de-listing from your engine? Not fine, although Google is certainly in their rights to do so.
A better strategy is for Google to adapt, not dictate. As it is, they've created this entire system where everybody games the system but nobody talks about it, and that's counterproductive for the net as a whole.
Exactly.
Google should become better at what they are doing, work harder on identifying spam sites. Crawl more frequently to get a better grip on provenance.
Maybe set up an 'announce' service where you can dump a url before linking it to establish provenance for your original content.
Dictation is not a solution to anything it is a show of weakness.