I’ve been reading Podz’s distaste with Google. I think it started with Blogger, because someone copied his website exactly. Content, layout, pics – everything. Google didn’t do anything for him, because they stated that they can’t do anything about it.
I don’t know if he had a problem with Gmail, but since he kept it at 5MB most of the time, he switched back to using his email account through his site.
Should I break as many ties with Google as I can? It’s not like A9, Yahoo, or MSN Search are lame – for the most part, Google has been really good with their search algorithms. However, is there a deeper motive?
If I do decide to cut as many ties to Google as I can, what do I do about my email accounts? Everything is forwarded to Gmail at the moment.
Here’s some Podz rants and links:
…and that’s not all. You should definitely search his site for Google and see what he has to say. I think he has good points for the most part. Please note there might be some swearing over there.
P.S. I typed this right before midnight last night on my PDA, and just copy and pasted it here this morning. Cut me some slack for any confusion I might’ve written. 🙂
Perhaps he should ban the google bot from his website with a robots.txt file :rollseyes:
But that’s not going to happen. Google is too good to him.
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He did ban Googlebot:
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2005/04/24/google-screws/
“Either way Googlebot is banned, and I shall be watching the logs to see if it disobeys.”
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Personally, I’m torn between two sides on this issue. Podz is right about everything he has said about Google. GoogleImages will steal your images and artwork whether you’ve filed a copyright or not, and they do some shady things behind the scenes, but I believe that Google’s search engine is still the best out there, and it still returns very useful results when compared to MSN and A9. In the end, I don’t mind Google crawling my site, and I prefer searching with Google, but I am using robots.txt to keep the Googlebot out of my images, music, and movies.
My experiences with MSN Search
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Google bad? No, it can’t be! Say it isn’t so!
Actually, it very well could be so, and I posted to that effect yesterday.
For a company whose motto was supposed to be “Do no evil,” they certainly are doing a lot of questionable things.
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Whoa, nice! I’m inching myself away from Gmail, of course. I’m definitely going to install the “Screw NoFollow” plugin, too. 🙂
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