The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange

Re:The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exc... by rjd on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @10:10PM (#3185068)

I'm a big outposken critic of Google, I've disliked them for a long time. But IMO I see no wrong here. If your business relies on Google to survive you don't have a good business, you need to do some introspection and reevaluate your business.

The update was beneficial to the interest of Google users. Those users aren't forced to use Google.

And even though Google is huge and gets great boons because of its size, it is also on a knife edge that could come toppling down because of a technological break through, or advertising collapse. In all respects Facebook is big enough to force that to happen (at least on an advertising front), but it could always come from an unexpected area as well.

(granted that a technological breakthrough seems doubtful, but often thats where the biggest surprises emerge)

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Re:The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exc... by jason1178 on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @02:46PM (#3188317)

The update was beneficial to Google, not necessarily to its users. A lot of Google properties (Demand Media, anyone?) that are clearly content farms climbed up the rankings while good sites like Stack, DaniWeb, and yes...Experts Exchange got nailed. In DaniWeb's case, she got nailed twice by two different updates.

The problem here is Google is selling the ads and also determining the traffic to the ads. It's too much in one place and ripe for abuse and the abuse seems to be happening

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