It's funny how I can post looking for some feedback and answers at times and get no reponse. Now this post comes along and gets tens of response in less than 12 hours. I guess I will title my technical questions with something like "SEO is all black hat" or "Java is a dead language" or "CSS is destroying the world".
What you really want is a title that you are getting beat in the serps by scraper sites or expired ebay listings. You will have 30 responses within the hour. Maybe more.
Just because they suck now does not mean they always sucked. They could easily be # 1 as they are and then start to suck, as they did.
It's like some say Internet Explorer sucks and they are the most widely used ( by a large margin )... I use IE, so I don't think it's bad (much faster than Firefox imo) Anyway, back to the point, I have started using MSN and Yahoo for a lot more searches the past few months. Earlier this year I showed a bunch of friends while doing research the benefits of other resources besides Google. I found some information on C++ much faster on MSN ... but, that's mainly because MSN updates so quickly I guess... and puts new articles to the top since it doesn't have a trust rank. I will never understand Google, but since bigdaddy my main site has been shuffled and now sits around the 11th page from when it was idling around the 7th and 8th page for a while. However, Google has helped me in the past when I sat at position #5 - #7 for about a year for many of my search terms. Oh well, MSN and Yahoo for now bring in some traffic. I think what we're seeing now is an "i'm bored..." and "are there any alternatives" to Google. It's starting to happen with the iPod, except much more quickly than it happened to Google. I remember using Altavista a lot, and then Yahoo! a bunch... until I saw Google's uncluttered interface. As more search engines adopt a very clean page, we may see other search engines take hold of the market. I doubt it MSN or Yahoo! will ever switch their pages over to the search.msn/yahoo.com since they both just got revamps lately.
[x] Do not return pages containing adsense ads That'd be a great option for the google search engine. Countless times i've ran into entirely nothing but MFA sites in the results. It's constantly a battle around non-content +/-MFA sites. I've tried all sorts of -negative/negating phrases/matching to rid of sites running adsense ads, but alas they cannot be negated in the search results. I would say there is a 70-80% chance that google is overly confident in their search engine. This is only reflected by the complete loss of focus on it. Google may feel they are in a position that cannot be reckoned with but as time goes on i see more and more of an opportunity for a better search engine A lot of times i'm utterly disgusted with the (+/-dated) results and ranking system of google. Regarding the 'google sucks' article (via original poster) i didn't find it to be very informative/relevant/etc.
Google sucks because they are not the old google who wants to show relevant results on their serps. The only thing they aim is to get more revenue from adwords, period. Otherwise how can you explain millions of pages being deindex, spam sites are floating everywhere. Dont be mistaken. Once google rocked but now serps totally suck and it's time to move on to yahoo which shows much relevant results even in image searches.
The only reason why MSN can give more relevant pages is because nobody do SEO for MSN. As soon as MSN gets bigger than Google, more people will SEO for MSN and then MSN will suck.
True dat, true dat. Half the people who say Google Suck are probably gonna lose there ranks in there sigs soon lol
Well 1 thing i can say about google is they were the only 1's who DID NOT RELEASE THE SEARCH RESULTS when the govt. demanded them... (Yahoo did,etc.......)
Speak for yourself. My livelyhood does not depend on Google. Anyone that puts their eggs in one basket gets what they get ...
I do not rely solely on G otherwise I would be in trouble, i was merely throwing a few scenarios around, point is google is in trouble, nothing to do with seo and webmasters efforts, unlike the thoughts of certain individuals. time to wait and see , hopefully not long
for me, google is very difficult to optimize. i tried to get ibl, advertise, directories but my keywords in G doesnt go up... But google dont sucks but my way of seo sucks.?