Is Google Going to Update PR or PR is Dead??

Well, then the whole system based on backlinks is flawed.
What stopping scammers from selling to newbs the same old bullsh*t:
"PR is still ticking and kicking, buy backlinks and be well"?

And BTW, you didn't answer my question



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I agree, no idea there was volume based discounts.

To PaulGL: Here's the thing, this is a complex problem for Google. They can't let Google turn into Goto, because that was a failure at the end. So they do need have a balance between quality and earnings, which technically, anybody who owns a website that generates income has to do the same thing. Unless you're a blackhat or something.

Google is also funding many companies through venture capital, who rely heavily on the organic space. So if they choose to squeeze the organic serps hard with adwords, they're kind of just shifting their profits around.

My point was that everything Google is doing is an attempt to make the SERPs more competitive, not less.

At some point though, this will get a bit ridiculous, in 10 years are people going to be writing 15,000 word pillars of content to rank on keywords like "Best My Little Pony Episode?" I just checked the SERP, we might already be there...

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SO confused right now.

I would ask if you reanimated that but I don't have any idea why you would have.

If I owned that, I know what I do would do with it. :looks at GSA:

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What is going on there? Is that a 404 page shower curtain?

I don't agree with you here!

Had Google not cared for society, it wouldn't have become so big. Even bigger than Yahoo and Bing.

I assume, all companies want to earn money but here to deal with internet community you have to show how helpful you are to the society.

Apart from the good search quality, Google has many places that are very beneficial to the society, and from these places Google earn very little money and let the public enjoy with the latest stuffs that are hard to find on the internet.

These places are Google Translation, Blogger, Maps, Drive, Gmail, Calendar, News etc.

Google always tries to maintain the simplicity while doing the great work.

On the contrary, I see too much greediness with Yahoo, with full page add when you login Yahoo Mail and other services of Yahoo as well.

I know Google earns from these places (Google Translation, Blogger, Maps, Drive, Gmail, Calendar, News etc.) but it doesn't let the public feel that these are totally commercial places.

But they do tell you, don't they? It was clearly visible from the UI of Adwords back when I was using the service, and I think I've even seen some on-screen messages about low quality scores. I'm not sure if it's changed, but back in the day you couldn't just bid high for something. Their algo would eventually kill the ad or campaign, but it's likely that you'd receive a fair warning before reaching that point.

They do this simply for the reason that perceived relevancy is the selling point of their service. Even the ads need to be about the topic. Many users won't care if they click a result or an ad as long as it's somewhat relevant to their search.

You're right: they're selling ad space and targeting services. End users and gathered data is something that they need to reach that goal. Google cares about end users in the same way that farmer cares for their cattle.

WTF? The reason Google is so big is their product that has been the best for the longest time. Or rather, several products. YouTube is going downhill, but it's going to be relevant for a couple of years at least.

The founders got lucky, and started at the right moment. They've recruited the best talent, bought a lot of companies, and their management hasn't messed up big time. They've not been that evil although that cute slogan doesn't ultimately seem to matter to them.

That's about it.

They're also known to avoid taxes, strong arm local governments, steal or copy interesting technologies that weren't for sale, make shady deals with suspicious governments, and so fort. Even when they seem to be sponsoring laws to keep internet free it's in their self-interests.

Google seems to release all kinds of nice free tools. There's at least two huge benefits for them: they keep people talking about their toys, and get a lot of goodwill from the geekiest and most internet-savvy demographics. Some of these tools would've been extremely hard to monetize, at least at the time of initial releases. Translation was a joke for a long time, and most of the other tools you mentioned have free, very cheap or desktop alternatives. It was their best move to try to grab another industry under their umbrella by releasing and pushing a free tool.

It's always been about educated guessing. PR has been rather stale or potentially false. Google hasn't been that forthcoming about the internals of their system. In essence there's a huge black box that you can feed things into, and see what happens.

This would be also the reason why there's so many different opinions and even completely ludicrous notions on how Google search operates.