You would think that if you did a search on the top search engine in the world, you would get reliable results.
That's right. Search Google, get the best and most credible results.
That's not right. Plain and simple, Google lies. The results are not trustworthy. The game is fixed. The prettier wrestler wins even he is not the better one. The bully rules because he is bigger.
This post'll sound like a rant. It's not. It's my attempt to say that Google cannot be relied on to give the searcher the results they are looking for.
Are you reading this Google?
Of course not. You'd never find me by looking in your search engine.
Until about two months ago, however, if you did a Google search, you'd find me, Bill Belew, number two on the first page, duking it out with a more popular Bill Belew, the man who dressed the king, Elvis Presley. I'll give that Bill Belew number one for now. But, my 3+ million unique visitors and 5+ million page views are worth something, except to Google.
Suddenly, inexplicabley, unilaterally, Google cut me out of their search results.
Thanks for the heads up, the dialog, the instruction, Googliath!
If you search Google, you'll find me, one of my sites on the fifth page.
Search Yahoo - front page.
Search MSN - front page.
Good grief, seach PanAsianBiz on Google and the top ten listings refer to my site via aggregators and social media, but you can't find a link TO my site.
What in the world is up with that, Google?
Same with TheBizOfKnowledge and RisingSunOfNihon.
Do you think you are finding what you are looking for on Google?
Not if you are looking for folks like me.
Google lies.
I am so there with you Bill. We work hard on our columns and it is supremely infuriating that Google suddenly decided that all our hard work is irrelevant. I'm not too worried about it though, I'll just keep cranking out good content. I have to believe it's not all for naught.
Posted by: Kimberlee Morrison | March 5, 2008 1:46 PM | Permalink to Comment