I realized something this morning. Google doesn’t work anymore for me. Google, with its secret algorithms and its dedication to fairness has finally missed the point. After all these years of getting it right or at least trying to, Google has missed the mark by a mile.

Here’s why:

I noticed that Google reports some of my websites as having no links back to them, which of course is patently false. We all know there’s link spammers out there so that means Google must be doing something to mitigate that real problem. The trouble is how can they do it accurately? The answer is, they don’t. Sites like mine get left in the dust because I don’t have links from sites that meet their relevance criteria.

But wait, that’s not true either! I have a site with a link from a PR6 website that doesn’t appear either! Yet when I search for the keyword “mydomain.com”, presto, there it is in the search results on the PR6 site. So Google knows it is there and chooses not to publish that link as a link to my site using their link: tool.

Anyway all this is interesting but besides the point. I woke up this morning and realized what I really want is this:

ACCURATE AND COMPLETE SEARCH RESULTS!

I want it left to me to decide what’s relevant. Not Google. It’s as if Google has recreated the internet in its own image. You know, like God.

I don’t give a damn what’s “popular”, I want information. Some of the information I want may be on websites like mine that may not have enough visitors for Google to decide we’re important. Mr. Google, I want to decide that what’s relevant to me, I don’t need your help.
So now I call Google the POP SEARCH ENGINE. For kids, suckers and AOL users.

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