Does Google Still Do It For You?

There is always an endless archive of articles on the Internet that explain the excitement and joys of Google as well as the sheer hatred and anger that people have against the company and their ever popular search engine. There is a world of people who don’t just hate Google because their sites got slapped or penalized for selling paid links. There too is a world of people who rave about not only how awesome their search engine is but how cool their many other free services are. Whatever the opinion may be, you can always count of hearing people dish it out on their blogs.

People expect some wild and crazy things from Google. Many people refer to Google, especially the Googlebot as an actual person. Would it be far fetched to expect Google and their fleet of web crawlers to be more humanlike? Mike Troiano, recently wrote an article that vividly shares his personal experience with Google over the last ten years. “I still remember the first time I used Google. It was in early 1998, and I was sitting in my office at Ogilvy & Mather in New York. I hit the page, expecting something Yahoo!-ish, and sat there staring at a word and a box on a white page for maybe five seconds, marveling at the boldness of it.”, says Mike Troiano.

Many people too can agree that Google’s bare bones home page seems to perplex many once they see what kind of results can be delivered form within. But, the Google search engine is far from having the characteristics of a human, and that was the something that Mike Troiano almost longed for after the 10 years of being a user. Troiano explains, “Why doth Google suck? Let me count the ways.Google.com doesn’t know or care about me. Google.com doesn’t care or know about where I am. Google.com is ignorant of meaning.” In fact, Troiano is so passionate about his feelings on Google he recently wrote an entire article about it titled, “Google Sucks: Why It Might Be a Good Thing“.

Some people even go so far as to feel like Google is personally out to get them, as if they are being singled out and targeted. This strongly seems to be with the case with John Pozadzides when he recently discovered that his web site no longer pulled up in the ranks for certain keywords that used to. “Someone over at Google has seriously got it out for me! Why is it that just 30 days ago I reported that I was number 2 for a search for “John P.” and number 12 for the word “John”, but just today I was amusing a friend and noticed that if you search for John I’ve now dropped to number 206!”, said Pozadzides. The lose of ranking for these keywords lead to the publication of a blog post titled, “Google Sucks Again!!!.”

I think an important thing to realize is that the Google search results constantly change. If they didn’t then you would have no chance at ranking in them. For every search term that you are able to rank for, consider the fact that there is also a former result that you have just knocked down to a lower rung on the ladder. That reason alone is why I don’t participate in sponsored posts and paid text links. How would you like to get your free organic ranking that you worked long and hard for only to be bumped down by someone who paid his way to over take your position?

What about all the Google Freebies? Don’t they count for something? Personally for me, I am surprised that Google doesn’t promote more of their services more than they already do. I consider myself to a a somewhat tech savvy guy, yet too it was just recently within the last year that I discovered some of their freebie services. Travis Wright discovered Goog 411 and recently wrote a blog post about yet another reason why he felt like Google Rocks. And then you have to case with Ronnie Marler who discovered how cool he thought that Google Sites was. All in all, I think Google leaves a bitter and a sweet taste in the mouths of millions of people.

So What Do You Think?

Is Google still doing it for you? Do you enjoy using Google and their array of free services, or do you have a bone to pick with them about something? Where do you see Google in the near future? What kind of changes do you think are in store for publishers as well as bloggers? Share your thoughts about Google in the comments. There is no doubt that you’ll have something to get off your chest.

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