Comments on: Why Can’t Google Be More Like Ask.com?

By: Roe

Roe — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:55:20 +0000

By punishing those who buy or sell links to get a higher ranking, Google is attacking one of the fundamental elements of the free market. However, that element in many cases is one of the fundamental problems with the free market — especially in this case, where the saturation of big-budget businesses in the SERPs is not necessarily (and usually not) beneficial to the end user.

Maybe the solution is not just punishing the link buyers and sellers, but re-evaluating how much weight is put on the number of links.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:51:06 +0000

Google started the game then decided to start changing the rules… moving the goal posts. Hey, when you have a slice of the market that large you can do what ever you want.

Ask knowing that they aren’t going to be able to get the webmasters to jump and dance with their 5% of the market simply made a better engine.

Clients only know Google. When they want a “first page ranking” they really want a top 10 Google Ranking. Good to Google for coming up with a business model and product that is so well marketed. But they have sold a lemon.

That leaves us with 2 options: 1. make lemonade or 2. ask for the tequila and the salt.

By: Jumpions

Jumpions — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:30:28 +0000

I am not sure about their solution because will mean the richer guys will get the top spots on their searches.

By: John White

John White — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:27:42 +0000

Completely agree! I don’t understand why google always changes all of the rules

Has anyone ever used Nemeas to help create profitable websites?

By: Sergey Rusak

Sergey Rusak — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:44:30 +0000

I am actually agree with Google position about paid links.
WIth link maket it looks more like “rich getting richer”.

By: Terry Reeves

Terry Reeves — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:39:03 +0000

I agree with that completely. I actually like using Ask over Google when searching. Unfortunately, searching Google is a requirement as no clients are interested in being on the first page of Ask, at this time.