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Yelling at Google about Google Tips
It feels good when you yell at Google and they actually listen and adapt to answer your concerns. Here Matt Cutts from Google agrees with someone who feels that Google tips is over reaching with it’s inaccurate display of “tips” in the organic search. Matt had to get PR to allow him to post his agreement with this disagreement. He also mentions that Google is lucky to have all of us holding them accountable for quality. The reality is that we make Google great by holding them to higher standards.
I started yelling at Google in 2003 as I mentioned here but there was nobody back then to help and the issue didn’t get fixed until not long ago. Today if you yell at Matt or any other Googler your cry will be heard and looked into within minutes.
The whole purpose of this blog was to keep an eye on Google (though they are doing much better now) and if I ever see them getting greedy with their power (that we give them via new “content”) I will be the first one to send in the dogs.
Warning: if you overuse “calling out” as a form of Google link baiting to get Matt Cutts to respond you can lose your credibility as Google slowly gains theirs. In other words, if you call Google out and you are correct you gain respect, if you are incorrect you can lose respect.
This discussion has more value than people might be aware to the future of a more democratic search.
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December 30th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Good post Aaron. I think the noise on the “Tips” was a little too much for even Google to handle. If Matt had come out in defense of this it would have been really disappointing. It will be interesting to see what changes are made as result.
December 30th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Quote: Warning: if you overuse “calling out” as a form of Google link baiting to get Matt Cutts to respond you can lose your credibility as Google slowly gains theirs. In other words, if you call Google out and you are correct you gain respect, if you are incorrect you can lose respect
Very true, and im sure google are appreciative of your watching ;)
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:21 am
“This discussion has more value than people might be aware to the future of a more democratic search.”
I completely agree with you on this.It is a general trend to follow whatever a popular source says but it should not be followed blindly.If services like Google are meant to benefit the community still there should be some governing body over SE’s that can keep things under control in future.
Do you guys think it is a good thing to do?
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:42 am
The governing body is currently people with blogs. When Google does something wrong, we notice it often times before Googlers do. When they make changes to their algorithm you often hear the screams from internet marketers.
If Google ended it’s fair SERPS policy it would be game over for something that has so much unrealized potential. I mean, look at Yahoo, how does anyone rank cosistantly in that? Is Yahoo! fair? Not at all, they are greedy and have little value to the future.
This stuff is so major, almost like the development of a constitution if done correctly.
Hard to explain but if Google does not fall into temptation by pressure to make more money they can become the ATM and voting booth of a future world.