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Written by Trevor Taylor
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Sunday, 12 November 2006 |
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Word Count: 806 So Do We Really Need Google?
It's not so long ago that I used to subscribe to the notion that AOL and
Yahoo believed they owned the Internet and had the right to control it. The
over-the-top war on spam a clever smoke screen whilst out monitors were pumped
with pop-ups that generated millions.
During the last couple of years however, it seems ownership of the Internet has
been surrendered to a new overlord! And we should all point our prayer mats to
face Mountain View CA. Or should we?
For those of us involved in any form of search engine optimization, we are led
to believe that if our websites are not recognized and accepted by our new
master, then we are doomed to failure. There are currently hundreds of tutorials
available on the internet which offer tips, tricks and secret formulae in making
our pages "Google-Friendly", and in a format that is acceptable to this Search
Engine Giant. Yet who knows what is acceptable to Google and what is not?
Google's algorithm changes are becoming more and more unpredictable and this
deceit presents the potential for high damage to your profitability at short
notice. In their Company Profile, Google claims that their mission is to
"organize the world's information, and make it universally accessible and
useful". It is questionable however, as to whether their methods offer the world
free and relevant results for any search term, or whether they in fact, only
present information offered by those websites that adhere to Google's ever
changing and secretive rulebook.
Since only a fraction of the World Wide Web is indexed by the "world's Leading
Search Engine", it's not really rocket science to understand that the results
offered in any Google search will not reflect the information available for that
search term.
The Internet is there for all of us to enjoy. A free information system, with a
level playing field when it comes to getting our websites noticed. Google's
agenda now seems to be to present information from the highest bidders rather
than delivering quality information to it's search pages. And what of "Google
Ranking"? So much store is set by the importance of being ranked by Google, yet
is it really that important?
For Example, lets say your interest is in Basket Weaving. You go to the Google
Search page and enter "Basket Weaving", hit the search button and... at No.2 on
page 1 (a place we all dream of seeing our website for our main keyword) you
will see "Underwater Basket Weaving", a website with a Google page rank of 2/10
and showing limited information relevant to the requested search term. Now look
at position 3 on page 1. Homecrafts Direct with a page rank of 0/10 and again
quite limited in it's relevancy. If you now go to page 8 (A place we are led to
believe has little chance of being noticed) At position one on the day of
writing is SimplyBaskets.com, a beautifully presented, informative webpage, with
a Google Pagerank of 4/10, specializing in "Basket Weaving". It is clear from
this simple exercise, which can be demonstrated using practically any search
term you choose, that Google's awesome search techniques don't really work as
well as they would like to imagine they do. Perhaps it's their own constant
meddling of protocol that will eventually expose them.
So why do we need Google? Does being ranked by Google make a difference? It
would appear that one of the biggest, if not the most visited website on the
Internet, Amazon.com don't fare any better than the rest of us where Google are
concerned. They have a Google Pagerank of 0/10, and my Link Popularity Check
software tells me that Google return no pages that link to Amazon.com - I find
it difficult to believe that the "world's Largest Search Engine" does not
recognize it's links back to Amazon.Com
The word Google is a play on the word "Googol", the mathematical term for a 1
followed by 100 zeros, and whilst Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin,
coined it to reflect their company's mission to organize an immense amount of
information, I believe that the company's new agenda is to organize that amount
of dollars into their bank account.
I do however swear that they will get no help from me in so doing! I am now
cured of my Google adoration fixation, and set about my seo Software!">SEO duties treating all
search engines the same. One can do little more than present an informative,
attractive and useful website, with Meta Tags to help all search engines. The
Internet belongs to us all, and hopefully it will stay that way for the
foreseeable future.
Trevor Taylor - Internet Marketing Online Tools
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