A buddy of mine today was whining about Google saying repeatedly that Google sucks. His main complaint was that his pages weren’t in the top listings for relevant keywords, when they used to be. For years I have been telling him to get his own domain, but he hasn’t listened. He sticks with his site being on his local ISP. So he doesn’t get any stats. If he got stats he might be sureprised as to how much traffic he gets from Google, and what keywords people are using to find his page. Having his own might also boost his position in the SERPS (search engine results pages). But he doesn’t listen. He also complained that Google wasn’t giving him relevant search results anymore, and that Yahoo gave better results. He also complained that the Similar Pages didn’t return anything similar. Frankly I ahve never used the Similar Pages function, so I couldn’t care less.
For the first six months in the life of zero2rich.com, Google wouldn’t give my site the time of day. But then after six months I got in, then a month later I got in some more pages. Now Google is my top referer. And having access to stats, I can see the phrases and keywords that I am getting hits for. Are they the ones I thought I would be getting hits for? Not usually. But with access to the pages that get the most hits, and the keywords people are using, I can tweak my pages to add a few Amazon items here or there, or make similar pages, etc. Google does drive me a little nuts sometimes, but does it suck? No. Besides I am making a significant amount of money from Google Adsense, and making a little more all the time
So to my buddy…wahhhh wahhhhh!
Google sucks lately; searching for product info on Google has become an absolutely pointless waist of time. They use to be the leaders, if I was searching results for a product name or model number would bring up either the vendor’s own pages or a few user comment pages. This was of great help in determining whether a product was worth purchasing and a help in finding replacement parts.
Now Google returns either hundreds of garbage pages that is nothing to do with the keyword traps or half-assed storefront pages or nothing is returned at all. For example, when looking some info on an Innotek invisible fence part# LP200 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-22,GGLG:en&q=innotek+invisible+fence+LP200 I received “innotek invisible fence LP200 - did not match any documents” see for yourself:
It’s pure junk. There’s nothing but storefront pages. What a waste of time.
People want good search results. Don’t be surprised when the go the way of the rest of the dot bombed stocks.
An added bonus when you use Yahoo.com is you get more then just search results you get email, news, weather, movie reviews, etc, etc, etc…Compare the pages http://www.yahoo.com & http://www.google.com who do you think offers more?
Google appears only to be in it for the money.
Comment by A buddy of Rob’s — December 15, 2005 @ 3:16 pm
Hey Einstein, I went to Yahoo and searched for “innotek invisible fence LP200″ as well, and it didn’t find any matching pages either. If the text doesn’t appear on any pages, the search engines are not going to find it. They are not magic. Search engines search for WHAT YOU ASK FOR, NOT WHAT YOU WANT. For all I know there is no such thing as a part # LP200 by Innotek.
Google does have news, and other stuff. They are not just a portal like Yahoo.
Comment by Rob — December 15, 2005 @ 3:37 pm