Comments on: What if Google Was Wrong

By: James Mann

James Mann — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:27:50 +0000

What if Google was wrong?? Well,i guess that would mean a lot of web site around the world would fall victim also, seeing as thought 9 out of 10 sites follow specifications set by Google in terms of development, in order to achieve top rankings. If that was all wrong then….Well….I guess that would mean a lot of web based development business would have to adapt quick.

If Google never existed, now that is a good one. I guess there would have been another bright spark who would have eventually thought up the idea with another name and that would be the Google we all know and love today.

By: PerfectMOney

PerfectMOney — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:22:45 +0000

what if the question is never exist,what if Google still be there dominate the internet for the next 100 years,what if Google become “synonym of internet”what if Google bigger then ever,what if Google can “search” a secret we have buried deep on the locker room-will you sue it ,what if the thread to be this thread the comment must be the different then today

By: Denver SEO

Denver SEO — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:02:06 +0000

I love this post, I have never really thought about Google this way before. You paint an extremely vivid picture of just hoe vulnerable Google could be, that is of course if everyone else was to play along. Ultimately I have these same what if scenarios about our current government. Sadly, I do not think anyone would ever make this stand.

By: Stever

Stever — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:26:27 +0000

or, if all the major publishers, and if your could push it on all the webmaster forums to get a huge number of little guys on board, added a meta robots NoIndex tag on everything. Poof! goes Google’s index.

But, reality is they have us by the balls. When many/most websites are getting 50% or more of their traffic from Google, and traffic equals revenue, there would never be enough people willing to bite the hand that feeds it. But what a story it would be if they did.

@Euroweb, interesting info about Naver. South Korea is kind of like it’s own little bubble on the net. The market itself is quite different and Naver does it’s best to keep it that way.

By: Amazing Articles

Amazing Articles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:38:38 +0000

I get some good Info about google
and the logo history is nice

thanks

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:50 +0000

If all those newspapers blocked crawlers for a day exactly two things would happen:

a) Google, which doesn’t run ads on Google News, wouldn’t lose a dime, and
b) The newspapers, who sell ads by the thousand, would lose a pile of money as their traffic collapsed for the day.

So basically you’re advocating another self-defeating empty gesture. Yay.

By: Euroweb

Euroweb — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:46:45 +0000

Actually, this is not so what if at all, if you have a look at South Korea. Naver holds the top spot because they control a pretty large chunk of the published content through their geocities/wiki-like properties, which have been very popular for years.

And Naver sticks it to those pesky data crawlers: Goog is completely disallowed via robots.txt. That way Naver will never ever lose it#s market share.

By: Fabio Ricotta

Fabio Ricotta — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:30:55 +0000

Cool post. This “what if” history makes me think like Andre(above). When will ppl think that Google isn’t cool anymore? I don’t know when but I know that every company has a timeframe into the history, maybe Google’s frame is ending. Let’s see next years.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:26:21 +0000

Actually Bill Gates and his wife are in the board room of some newspapers

By: Chase Granberry

Chase Granberry — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:19:50 +0000

Until someone comes up with an easier way to find relevant content on the Internet nothings gonna change. The social web is quickly becoming a more passive way for people to get the information they need. In stead of searching for articles on search I can just watch Twitter and find good stuff like this