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Providing Google don't become as arrogant as Microsoft did - and hence annoy alot of people regularly, they should be ok.

So they should stop doing things like imposing change without any notice to the community that use them.

Two recent examples spring to mind:-

The change to the No Follow rule which they imposed and told people about a year later. No only did this involve a massive amount of unwittingly wasted effort on the part of webmasters everywhere, it turned out that they were actually harming their site's authority as their Page Rank evaporated.

Secondly, they removed the Page Rank stats in GWMT without any notice to say where it had gone. Overnight a very helpful tool disappeared and thousands of webmasters spent the next few weeks wasting hundreds of hours cumulatively trying to find out where the stats had gone or wondering whether their site had incurred one of Google's notoriously unannounced penalties.

Small things, but I'm sure that's how it started for a small successful company called Microsoft.

Ben

I think that Google and the web are good indicators of the health of the economy. If people are increasing spending online, and particularly in advertising, this is a good sign that things are turning around. I know our SEO business has seen an increase in the last few months as well!

Cheers to a better economy!

It is clear to most that Google has already crossed that line. What makes it creepy though is the people that misuse the information. Google provides great tools and does make things much easier for most, but it's the idiots that ruin that information and technology for us.

From my point of view google is one of the new wonders of the world comparable to the 7 wonders in the world. I couldnt imagine how life would be without google.Dont you think so too?

I'm no seo or google expert but as a internet layman one mistake google shouldnt make which they have been lately is alienating its users. Note to google execs: Dont let power corrupt you. This is the mistake that Microsoft made and it appears they cannot recover.

Gus Schmidt

Google is increasingly using its near monopolistic powers to bully and strong-arm the very hands that feed it -- its advertisers. New and not so arguably ridiculous policies and mandates on advertisers' landing pages not only disrupt their business and processes, but will also eat into Google's ever fat margins. Google has become too powerful for its own good, with that 'absolute power corrupting absolutely' becoming increasingly evident in their treatment of advertisers, partners, and yes, their very own users. Here's to Yahoo/Bing emerging as a formidable competitor that will hopefully keep the Google monster at check to some degree.

FOR ALL YOU COMMENTERS POSTING BAD THINGS ABOUT GOOGLE JUST KNOW THEY LOGGED YOUR IP ADDRESS WITH YOUR COMMENT AND ARE STORING IT ON THE "BIG RED HARD DRIVE" THAT MEANS YOUR ON THE LIST!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR SCREWED!!!!! THE WHOLE WORLD IS OVER AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Now they are stuck on the idea that they have this sword and they might as well find something or somebody to use it on. Which is not so great is your standing around the party looking dangerous just for fun. It's time to move to a better story google like say farming or stewardship which might be more in line with what you actually need to be doing.

What Google needs is new people in charge. Ones that are not involved in Google's current criminal activities like Theft, Tax Evasion, Aiding Criminal Organizations like Hamas and Bin Laden's, aiding the Russian mob by allowing them to advertise their scams on Google. The government in China will only allow Google in China if they allow the criminals in their country to advertise on Google.

Who cares what Schmidt the Evil Lying Thief says, the cross dressing freak never told the truth in his life and he will not ever tell the truth. Google is the largest data mining company in the world and keeps every last detail of your online activities forever.

They will show your info to anyone that is willing to pay for it, any government or police official that even asks, forget about a warrant, they don't need it. Google is nothing but a Greedy bunch of liars and thieves who will not stop until they have crushed every small business on the web.

I for one await the release of the Google Killer which has been in development for the last 7 years and does not have any of Google's bugs or scams.

Yay ! The death of the greedy giant thief is coming soon. and they will not be able to buy it, they will just have to die a slow death as they scramble to buy out a company that hates them and will never sell.
KH

Google needs to be split. Taking the whole world. Crushing the little guy with its free services. If you think different you need your head checked. Usually your type wakes up when the lion is in front of you salivating on your ass.

Maybe Google can address all of the issues that been brought up about their new Sidewiki toolbar. Alot of webmasters that have been complaining about invasion of privacy and intellectual property infringements caused by Sidewiki.

Here's an article I wrote on the topic: http://michaelhumphreys.com/?p=27

I'd love to hear Google's CEO address this major concern as it affects everyone.

Take care,

Mike

It will be interesting to see if Google can stay ahead. Today they are THE name to beat in search engines, but they do have competition. Yahoo and Bing know they need fresh angles to compete, but when you're in the lead it's easy to get lax and just keep doing what you're doing.

Microsoft has gotten so stodgy and out of touch with reality. Hopefully google can keep it fresh and fast. As long as they continue with free tools I'll support them. This guy started out boring but got much better when he got out of the script and started talking from the heart – we need that attitude.

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