SOL ON SEO!!! Reasons I hate GOOGLE

Words cannot express my overwhelming hatred for GOOGLE.

I especially love how quick Google is to take you off the first page if you change one word. It's like you cannot even fart next to your website without GOOGLE taking notice and pushing you down. Sorry GOOGLE, I did not know you were so temperamental!!!

Another reason, find a way to show me what I'm looking for!!! Too many times I have to sift through the B.S. to find information on what I am researching.

I also don't like the fact that GOOGLE is running the show on being the search engine that "everybody" uses. Do we know for a fact that everybody uses GOOGLE? I mean there are those out there that still use IE. IE is the most widely used browser and it's not even W3 compliant!!! So if people are still using IE then I'm sure people are still using yahoo...

I personally prefer yahoo over GOOGLE. Indexing takes half the time!!!

I wish we could all boycott GOOGLE and stick it to the man...

 

All I can say is, don't use Google if you don't like it! And accept it, because you can't change a damn thing about it.

 

Amusing comment, - it is annoying! I know how you feel

 

it simply means that you can't everybody. . . many people like google because of simplicity and related results but despite that there are some who choice not to use it.

 

majority of the people still uses google over yahoo and we cant do anything about it unless yahoo offer something great to the people.

 

I think all the SEO guy hate google but like google too. They hate google as you mentioned, and they like google because google drive lot of traffic

 

I myself can't stand google and the they operate. If the guy at google that takes care of adsense he wakes up on the wrong end of the bed there bans to be handed out. The guy who places your website in the position it in he had a fight with his wife you lost your position. Google it's time for you to fall flat on your face and that day is coming soon i hope.

 

I had to vent this one out. I am sure there are people who can relate...

GOOGLE, I am still upset with you....

 

I guess I'm in the minority. I actually like Google. I like its search results. And I've had no problems with their rankings. I work hard to get keywords on the first page, and I fully realize there are thousands of other webmasters out there trying to replace my listing on the front page. Google is OK by me, and I'm thankful for the 53% of my total traffic that comes via Google.

 

I think I'm on the minority side here, too. I'm quite happy with G's performance. So are quite a number of people...

 

Hello...

Its a Love/Hate relationship i have ....

love them when they do me right, Hate them when they screw me

Search wise... they cant be touched

laterz
malcolm

 

Google is the monopoly on how people are now receiving and perceiving information - and this is a scary thing. Libraries in my area are closing, largely because people do their searches online. But think about the information they're getting. Wikipedia, which is human edited and FULL of errors, plus it is very biased so even if you go in as a new editor and try to create a listing it might get deleted - even if you're writing about a famous family member you know very well!

And kids doing book reports will look at the results on the first page of Google. That's where they're getting "the truth" about things.

Scary. Especially considering the first pages of Googles are excessively manipulated by us webmasters seeking high rankings and traffic for our sites!

Sometimes I think about how much insane POWER we have after we master SEO - we can control how someone perceives a product, a niche, or a product creator - just through doing certain tricks on our site. If we multiply our efforts and get lots of listings in Google for each keyword, taking up several spots on the first page or even the entire first page of results, we literally OWN the world's perception about that keyword.

The opportunity to permanently influence people's beliefs and perceptions by getting on that first page are amazing. Many searches never look beyond the first page of results when they're looking for something online. I know one middle-aged woman who literaly believes that if she doesn't find it on the first page of Google, it doesn't exist. Think how susceptible she is to believing anything that she finds on that first page!

Now think about all the crappy affiliate pages spamming the first pages of the results - and how that forms perceptions about the keyword, niche, or product.

It's bizarre.

The nefarious aspect of this is what you can do to someone you don't like, or someone who is a competitor. I think the larger companies are the most vulnerable actually. They might outsource seo to some dude who thinks he's hot because he can get them a few first page listings for their keywords, but usually their seo strategy doesn't go a lot farther than that. At least for moderate sized companies.

We, as the smaller players, can knock them out of the water if we devote enough time to dominating the engines.

For better or worse, Google is the game in town.

Dan

 

Personally, I like Google. I can't find what I'm looking for on other search engines as consistently as Google. Why should Google cater to you? They are trying to make the best search results for users.

 

I quite like the amount of tools that google offer, webmaster tools, analytics's etc

But I must admit the search engine isn't that good, I have found some terrible results lately, some pages with nothing on them, pages missing, irrelevant pages to what I have been searching etc

 

till now i dun't have any problem with google...its good in searching....but i culdnot understand google's dance....

 

Everybody hates google until they rank ;-)! Google is complicated and they do play GOD but it is still the best source of traffic hands down. If you can't rank in google stick to yahoo and msn they do still send a good amount of traffic and customers.

 

Anyone who builds a business based on free results from Google should go to the closest court where they can file for bankruptcy......

It's truly amazing at the amount of webmasters without a clue to how to operate a business...

There is no free lunch......

Get that fact straight and one day you MIGHT find success.....



PS I love Google

 

I do apologize if I hurt your feelings. I can understand why you would take this personal. After all, this thread is directed toward google...

 

You haven't hurt my feelings at all

I am in a way agreeing with you.....my point is not to rely on Google for your business.....

There are many more ways to drive targeted traffic to your website than with free results listings from Google......

So you should only be mad at yourself.....

not Google....they don't force you to try and rank well... that is free choice.....even if it is the wrong one for your business...

Peace!

 

Thanks for the feedback. I just wish it was as easy to rank on the big dog as it is the little dog.

Any advice on driving targeted traffic to my website?