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The Big G

by thunderbird
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I think (or at least I hope) the nature of the Internet and technology ensures that new players will always emerge to curtail total dominance by any one particular entity (my new word du jour).

My G earnings have gone down so much that I hardly pay attention to it. I've just taken other routes and other approaches than trying to please a mysterious and unaccountable game-rigger that makes arbitrary changes, deliberately obfuscates everything, and is almost impossible to contact (though they demand contact information from everyone else).
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    Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

    You don't build your business on someone else's lot.

    That's just plain dumb.
    Yes, for sure, but that is just what a lot of people are doing , or trying to do. That said, some ticket scalpers and dog vendors outside of stadiums do sporadically make nice money.
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      Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

      Yeah, they do, but they rent or license the space. Google is perfectly happy to help build your business if you pay them. I feel sorry for the people caught in the silly occupation of manipulating search engines.

      They are, in essence, stealing from the search engine businesses. Then they whine and cry when the search engine won't advertise their business for nothing.
      Google manipulates search engines, so I am totally ok with others trying to do the same -- all power to them (but I'm not smart enough to do that). I don't have anything against Google. I just don't mess around with their slot machines. They operate their casino business well. Since they can get away with it, hypocritically demand standards of others that they don't apply to themselves. If you own the game, you can set the rules however and whenever you want (it's in the small writing). Banks do the same thing.
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    Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

    You don't build your business on someone else's lot.

    That's just plain dumb.
    Yeah, well, gee Ken. Quit beatin' around the bush and tell us how you really feel.

    Yeah, they do, but they rent or license the space. Google is perfectly happy to help build your business if you pay them. I feel sorry for the people caught in the silly occupation of manipulating search engines.

    They are, in essence, stealing from the search engine businesses. Then they whine and cry when the search engine won't advertise their business for nothing.
    Hmmm - I've never paid them and they still haven't dropped me off. They like me even better when I keep up with my blog. Ya don't build a business to keep a search engine happy. Ya build it to keep viewers happy. If you're doing that you can pretty much just cruise right through the algorithm changes.

    Still won't use google to the tune of paying for them, though.:rolleyes:
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