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I love Gmail and occasionally use other free service.

I am a little perplexed when certain things don’t go my way though….. like my new site getting PR0 when much less visted / ranked / less linked sites of mine grabbed PR2’s!!!

But….. I can’t blame Google. They have a calculation and that is the way it is.

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Oh, this is such a huge blow to my ego. I’m just not sure I can keep going on. I’m no longer more important than John Dvorak, Sir Elton John, John Travolta, and the Johns Hopkins University. How do they justify this egregious act!/blockquote>

But whatever… I guess the sensational title and the small section of quote before he got to the funny part was all you needed.

I don’t have an extensive relationship with google yet, but I love their free services. They are on the edge and I like it.

You can’t live without them, so you may as well join them and see how they can help you!

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Google Sucks
Google is Great
Google Rocks
Google Bites
Google SERPS
Lost SERP Rank
…etc.

You should check out all the juicy things people say about Google on their blog.

Troiano further explains his meaning in the following paragraphs found on his article:

Google is powered by machines that troll the net for character strings, not words per se, in the way we use them. It is used most often by people interested in information, concepts, or even ideas, as opposed to the unique collection and sequence of letters that form “STUPID.” See a problem?

Now, what made Google so great in the beginning was its clever way around this problem, essentially to conduct a non-stop popularity contest where it learns what people want based on the string of letters they enter. If most of the people who search “STUPID” tend to click on a page, uh, “lacking intellectual rigor,” then so be it. That link rises to the top of the query when others input the same word. A system like that only gets better the more people use it, which is what makes Google appear so unassailable.

I agree with you totally. Google does know the location from where you access the site. I am not sure why he said that Google doesn’t know where you are at. Perhaps he didn’t mean that in a geographical standpoint. Troiano seems to be a very skilled writer and obviously a very deep thinker. I can’t say that I agree with the article he wrote, but indeed, I really do like his deep thinking and writing style.

So I could be wrong here, but this is what I think. I think that the when the crawler scans the web page for indexing, there are certain things that can trigger “yellow” and even “red” flags. Get too many of those, then I think you’ll be scheduled for a manual visit by a human working at Google. If that person doesn’t like what he sees, then it’s doom for the publisher in violation.

I bet you had to use Yahoo or another search engine to find most of the posts you cite