Comments on: Ask Not What Google Can Do For You

By: sadcox

sadcox — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:11:47 +0000

…I don’t have very many other nerdy friends.

It’s funny that you can remove the word “nerdy” and it still makes total sense.

By: tch

tch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:58:28 +0000

I generally just read it to find out important stuff to G like “IRL,” as I don’t have very many other nerdy friends.

By: Hungry Mother

Hungry Mother — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:34:50 +0000

FEA (I just coined that), I think I’ll just Stumble. Wait, they make money somehow, too.

By: sadcox

sadcox — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:28:28 +0000

Wars and competition between the big guys always benefit the rest of us (little guys). That’s one reason I’m not overly upset by what G’s doing now.

If they’d let everyone continue on their merry way, or (even worse) not disclosed that they were penalizing for link buying/selling they’d have continued their power grab with very little noise.

At least now some people are paying attention. I do wish there was a formidable Adsense competitor with higher payouts. I’m sure it’s coming.

On getting caught buying and selling–if you can’t figure out (conclusively) if a site is selling links, G’s crawler probably can’t either. We’re still waaaay better at fuzzy logic than computers are, at least for now.

By: BillyMac

BillyMac — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:03:39 +0000

Ever heard of netscape, or infoseek? MS is gunning hard for G, I heard Balmer speak on this at a conference a couple of weeks ago, they are definitley going to get into the search and advertising space. Not that I am looking forward to MS in this area, but watch out for a war. The cool people will end up on somebody else like Y or the next flavor of the year.

By: sadcox

sadcox — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:47:58 +0000

I think it’s a lot like the mob…if you want to make money in their neighborhood…

By the way, JS did not pay me for the link.

By: Just Sayin'...

Just Sayin'... — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:28:03 +0000

Google is the largest link selling agent on the web! They have no problem selling links… As long as the links are being sold via Adsense!

Google has turned their back on those who made them in order to fill their coffers. I mean… I have no problem with Google turning a profit… Why do they have a problem with me turning a profit?

By: sadcox

sadcox — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:15:37 +0000

JS,
Yeah, you leave no room for doubt in your stance…

My biggest problem with the whole situation is that G had to have known that they were creating a market for link selling. It’s almost as if they laid a trap in order to dust some SEO people.

Is Google the new Microsoft?

It is starting to look that way.

By: Just Sayin'...

Just Sayin'... — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:11:13 +0000

I think it’s pretty obvious where I stand on this issue… I just wanted to say thanks for the link, and tell you that you have a great blog here!

BTW… Ask.com is really a fantastic SE and anyone who’s anyone is using it now. So if you want to be cool… You’ll use ask.com, that’s A…S…K.com

It’s not your father’s search engine!

I’m just sayin’…