Categories: Computers & Internet

We Ought have clipped the Google

It was in 2010 when the ‘rumour’ that Google was going into the online publishing field,  I had trepidation.

In 2011, the Content Farm attacks and Panda were causing many sites to lose views, to be denied a place in searches.

I wondered if they had a plan in relation to online publishing,  or if they were just doing evil.

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Many people thought, wrongly, that the ‘Content Farm’ attack was to raise the standards.

I thought, stupidly, that maybe Google would create the most perfect publishing site imaginable

Off hand I thought that if Google would have an online publishing site, they’d have strong moderation and excellent items.   And most of all, they would pay high premiums.
Ha!
They came up with a rubbish dump called Knol which expected writers to do scholarly research, free gratis and for  nothing.
After falling on their face with Knol  Google changed the name of its rip off site to Annotum.
Another failure.
When you look at it,  nothing Google does or  has touched is really so special or top of the line.  So why should they extend into publishing, save to put other sites out of business?
Think of it.
If you were Google, allegedly possessing some kind of  Web ability, and wanted to create a writing site, would you have gone about it so evilly?  Claiming other sites, paying sites were ‘Content Farms’ and pushing them out of business so as to shove in a site which demanded so much work?   And no pay?
I blame many of the writing sites for their passivity.   They ought have retaliated by supporting a rival search engine,  and getting traffic by advertising.
When we go to write on line, we depend on others to tell us;  “Oh there’s a site called Niume,”   “Oh, there’s Mylot…”   because there isn’t some easy to know site which entices us.
If Triond or Hubpages, two causalities of  Google, had retaliated, the first would still be alive, and the second would not have dropped from a well paying twelve Million visitors a month to just about seven hundred Thousand.



  • kaylar

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      • Imagine every user/visitor of Hub Pages getting an advisory and being humbly requested to use Bing instead of Google... every writer whose hits have declined, every reader who feels manipulated would do it.

    • Like threathy fox said it's hard to retaliate considering google's capital. To put in an other way it's like stealing candy from a baby (google's perspective). And let's be honest the world has almost turned in too a capital slavery.

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