Google is Scraping the Bottom
google started to include site-searching from within the google search results. so instead of handing the users off to a site from the search results page, they want you to search more on the site itself. quite understandably, not everyone is pleased, the online retailers to say the least. check out how you can search within bestbuy.com site without leaving google. awesome feature, if you are a user, no doubt. but there’s gotta be a way to do this while respecting the rights and goals of it’s publishers.
this crap comes when yahoo, on the other hand, is giving content publishers the control to the real estate on it’s own SERP.
what a contrast! this behavior from google is monopolistic, pure and simple, disguised as it’s-good-for-the-user mantra. people, here are a few inviolable tenets under the new lord of the tech world -
- google is smarter than you. shut up and hold your questions.
- if it’s good for google, it’s good for you. shut up and buy the stock.
- google has the right over your content. if in doubt, shut up and count your traffic.
- everything on the web should be free, except AdWords. shut up and enjoy the free youtube videos of jodha akbar.
- if you monetize it, we’ll make the same thing, and give it away for free. gee that sounds familiar.
this below quote from the mashable article is laughable for it’s shameless perpetuation of stupidity.
google states that they have not had many complaints over the new feature yet, but they are willing to remove sites from the service at their request.
read:
if you dont lock your house, i have the right to steal. btw, please lodge a complaint to get your stuff back. and i have the right to steal again.
with this, google is now scraping the bottom to keep those upside surprises every quarter. slowly but surely, the echo chamber of google mantras at googleplex is turning into a cacophony, and the love-relationship it had with it’s users is turning into a tragic love-hate relationship.
lol.. I can see someones not a google fan
haha.. i love google’s products., and what they were couple of years ago.
i just don’t like what google has become lately, especially their attitude toward content owners.
I fail to see what the problem is. The purpose of a search engine is to help users find what they are looking for. The purpose of a search engine is not to generate pageviews for some random aggregator or some such site. The purpose of Adwords is to generate sales, not clicks or CPM pageviews for parties who do not add any value. If Google is better at driving sales for end destination sites than non-value third party sites, then more power to them.
zed, agree with this – “the purpose of search engine is to help users what they are looking for” and most of what you’ve written.
the problem is how.
if they pass on the monetization equitably to those that actually generate information that the users are looking for, i think the ecosystem (that consists of publishers and search engines) is balanced. at present, the ecosystem is hardly balanced, where most of the value is captured by the search engines (disproportionately, i must say) with very little left for the publishers.
drawing an analogy, something inherently is wrong when the map maker is making more money than the people building the tourist attractions. not sustainable.