Is Google is a steamrolling web despot on amphetamines?
Trust issues, privacy concerns, foul treatment of partners and Big Brother is shinning through the seams.
Hostile Takeover
With over three times the search market share of closest competitor Yahoo, Google is careening towards an ever expanding dark empire.
Paid search puts them even further ahead.
In comparison, Microsoft is starting to look like the gentler, softer monopoly of the past.
And the summer before that.
And:
- who your friends are
- what you discuss with them by email or chat (gmail, gtalk)
- what you look for in the dark of the night when nobody’s looking [sic]
- what sites you own
- what products you promote
- Generally, more about you than you can probably consciously recall
- What content you watch (youtube)
- What music you may be stealing
Without getting political, does the recent climate not warrant a question such as “what if all this falls into the wrong hands?â€
And that’s only if you consider that Google’s hands aren’t them…
Google Slap anyone?
Yes, there are rules. But those rules could stand to be far clearer. Warnings could be issued.
Instead, Google is remarkably trigger happy when it comes to the little guy. They think nothing of disabling your account with only vague cryptic explanations given.
If you’re big enough or popular enough, you can cloak at will (NY Times), spam like there’s no tomorrow (About.com), dominate search results across the board (Wikipedia) and buy links from Google itself.
To the untrained eye, it may not be clear what’s happening.
That’s why it’s time to take a stand and say no.
Here’s how this works:
1) Copy this post or reproduce it on your blog in your words
2) Click “view source and grab the links below once they are addedâ€
3) Email me at alex [at] netfrontiermarketing [ dot] com with your post
4) Get your link added here and every other site that participates
5) This site will be updated daily with new links, as should your page
Bonus points: when linking to Google, use the no follow attribute and / give them the anchor text they deserve: web apartheid.
Participants:
Fantomaster
Jean GhaloRiches Revolution
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Will do Alex… once I get some free time… in about 3 hours :p
Sincerely, THE SEO Expert
Cody Goodman
P.S. :O
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Hey, would it be cool to do an article or two and submitt them to some social and article sites?
I am totally fed up with the “Google Police”! I have been slapped and pissed on too many times all the while i feed them my money hand over fist and not to mention all of my private data being collected just by using thier services and product.
They do not care one bit about the smaller people out there that combined put more money in their pockets by the bus load every day. Google needs to be slapped back hard for their hypocrytical, slapping the small person for what might be a subjective violation while kissing the big guys on the ass as they break any rule they want. How many lives and families have they ruined dishing out their God-Like punishments.
Will do. I hate Google. They are so very, very dangerous and wield too much power. Actually, I’m very concerned about this company. I don’t like the situation and the regular folks simply don’t know about it let things go on. Before too long, when all the competition is gone, then what happens…
Well said, Google is a monster out of control. Why did they allow BMW back into the SERPS when BMW was caught and admitted to spamming the index with gateway pages.
Why do we have to play by Google’s rules? If I want to use css to design my page and I make it so that some text is white on a white background, why should I be penalized for that? Yea I understand that some are trying to cheat the system, but everyones so afraid to design their sites fearing that using gray text on a white background may be misconstrued as a blackhat seo tactic. FUCK Google!
Hi Guys,
Cody: Great, send me the link when it’s ready.
Jamie: sure, articles are fine. In fact anything that raises awareness is good. It’s even better if you put it on your site because you get links to you.
Pierre: These are my thoughts exactly. Send in your link as soon as you have it.
Hi Google Monster,
The BMW story was a fiasco. This kind of stuff is happening on a constant basis.
How many big advertisers have piles of dark grey on black links below their footer, yet rank for those terms?
Your points on design are entirely correct. Now it’s going that way for reciprocal linking.
In their efforts to cure a spam problem they created, they are throwing out the baby with the bath water, and the little guy is the one who pays the fee.
Not only that, notice how Google claims clickfraud on Adsense is below 3%. In reality it’s much higher, but even assuming it’s only 3% (which is still a lot) given that 3% could be more then a million different cases (how are they measuring it anyways by site or by case, or by fraudster?). Anyways assuming it’s 3%, Google has a no-refund policy even when they knowingly accept that click-fraud has occurred on a particular ad-campaign. You would think they would at least run the ad longer, or spare some of the expense that was deducted from advertiser..but nope, they stand clear of this and say “Too bad”. They ban the account of the publisher (whos fault it may or may not be), and instead of refunding some or all of the money to the advertiser, they keep it for themselves.
Also why is that all Google services automatically get a PR value of 10? I mean almost all of their official blogs even have a PR of 10. Shouldn’t they have to earn links as well, I mean there’s no way they would rank 10 according to their own algorithm – but since it’s their search engine I can excuse this. But I don’t excuse them of 1) buying out a massive number of companies in the same fashion as Microsoft (Google is the new Microsoft btw, only they have great PR) and 2) unfair competition by branding their own products and services and making it so that YouTube videos now appear in search results meaning that Google can profit from its own service even when it has nothing directly to offer (eg: taking users videos, ranking it higher on the SERPS, and then profiting from this).
will do so alex in a while and send you the link
but sorry will take the post as it is with an introductory text is that ok with u?
regards,
jean
Hi Alex
I read your site daily (well as often as you update it)… This post of yours is LOOONG overdue.
9 out of 10 people I speak to HATE Google witha passion, their discriminative tactics, their big bully attitude and WORSE OF ALL is the fact they can LEGALLY STEAL any publishers earnings at whim without any more than 3 line autiomated email…… I am sure that unless gets Bitch Slapped BIG TIME and some time soon, that in the next 5 years all the choice youw ill have will be Google for everything!
Held to ransom, abused, stolen from, breach of data protection… WHO THE HELL HAS THE BALLS to tackle this super house of crime….
Why Alex Goad of course & his band of merry men
I will be posting this article everywhere, sending this link to everyone and will do as instructed in any effort to bring Google to is dirty, whore like knees…
Thanks Alex
Will
Hey Will,
Thanks for your support. People are Google brown noses. They will learn the hard way.
Google’s recent antics don’t surprise me in the least. It was only a matter of time before they sold out to the new world order elite who run more than just the banking industry. The Internet scares those who have propaganda and corporate sponsored news on their mind, so if they can control Google and watch Google’s users, well…lets just say that George Orwell is rolling in his grave. (Author of 1984)
PS: I still need to add this post to my blog, will do soon. I’m wondering once Google catches wind of it, how it will affect our rankings. Maybe we’ll disappear from the index completely, haha.