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It's not so long ago that I used to subscribe to the notion that AOL and Yahoo believed they owned the Internet and had the right to control it. The over-the-top war on spam a clever smoke screen whilst out monitors were pumped with pop-ups that generated millions.
During the last couple of years however, it seems ownership of the Internet has been surrendered to a new overlord! GOOGLE! And we should all point our prayer mats to face Mountain View CA. Or should we?
For those of us involved in any form of search engine optimization, we are led to believe that if our websites are not recognised and accepted by our new master, then we are doomed to failure. There are currently hundreds of tutorials available on the internet which offer tips, tricks and secret formulae in making our pages "Google-Friendly", and in a format that is acceptable to this Search Engine Giant. Yet who knows what is acceptable to Google and what is not?
Business - List of business/finance/loan/mortgage resources
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Computers - List of computer hardware/software/peripheral resources
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Internet - List of webhosting/webdesign/internet marketing resources
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Casino - List of online gambling/poker/blackjack/roulette resources
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to your profitability at short notice. In their Company Profile, Google claims that their mission is to "organize the world's information, and make it universally accessible and useful". It is questionable however, as to whether their methods offer the world free and relevant results for any search term, or whether they in fact, only present information offered by those
websites that adhere to Google's ever changing and secretive rulebook.
Since only a fraction of the World Wide Web is indexed by the "world's Leading Search Engine", it's not really rocket science to understand that the results offered in any Google search will not reflect the information available for that search term.
The Internet is there for all of us to enjoy. A free information system, with a level playing field when it comes to getting our websites noticed. Google's agenda now seems to be to present information from the highest bidders rather than delivering quality information to it's search pages. And what of "Google Ranking"? So much store is set by the importance of being ranked by Google, yet is it really that important?
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