Paid posts are the devil incarnate according to search engines

robwatts — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:26:07 +0000

Luke – I’m sure they look at it too and handle it in their own way, quietly.

Fact is that Google is the biggest referrer of traffic so gets the greatest amount of attention.

Paid posts are the devil incarnate according to search engines

Luke — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:07:21 +0000

How come we never here anything from Yahoo! and MSN about paid links, blog review and the no follow tag?

Paid posts are the devil incarnate according to search engines

robwatts — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:19:17 +0000

Hi Misha – Some webmasters I suspect, would say that the Google train has already arrived at the ‘corrupt brutal killing machine drunk with power’ station.

Paid posts are the devil incarnate according to search engines

Misha — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:12:34 +0000

Rob,

Thanks for putting it all together. It does not surprise me a bit, though. The more Google grows, the more it reminds me of Soviet Union. Utopian rhetoric on the surface and monetary interest in the heart… I bet it will finish the same way eventually…

Paid posts are the devil incarnate according to search engines

robwatts — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:11:13 +0000

Big Oak – I think you echo many of the sentiments felt and expressed by the small guys.

FWIW, I think the others wouldn’t be too much different given a similar scenario.

At some point something will give, I think thats inevitable. M$ found themselves in a similarly unrivalled position and we all know how that story went…

Thanks for stopping by