Maybe we should think more about our way of thinking, about how quickly we get used to things and think they’ll remain the same forever.

Although I’ve never really prefered Google over Yahoo and others, I got used to this search engine’s simplicity and trustworthiness. And I must admit I used it much more often than the other search engines.

What I’m trying to say is:

Let’s not simply switch to another “coolest” search engine and prefer that one everywhere on the web. Let’s have differences, alternatives, different views of the web.

Let’s not make the future look like “Wow, Yahoo rocks now, Google’s definitely out!”

Be yourself.

First of all, I am not angry at Google. Why should I be? But since this post was about Re-evaluating Google, I presented my opinions.

I am only saying Pagerank is a useless metric. And I am not either sure, if people still sell or rent links on basis of Pagerank. Anyways It seems you have a deep fetish for Pagerank. Good for you.

why are you so angry with Google? You don’t have to use it.

Google doesn’t like that people cash in on high pageranks.

Period.

Does Toolbar Pagerank decide your search engine rankings? If this was true, then Engadget, Forbes would have seen at least 20-30% traffic drop by now. None of the sites which have their PR decreased have reported their rankings being dropped.

Will Google devaluate the link passing ability of websites with lower pagerank? Again if this happens then it will be Google itself who is going to suffer in the long run, because we all know Google’s alogorithm is solely dependent on backlinks. And punishing authority or strong sites, means gaming its own algorithm which I doubt Google will do.

And third for readers. How is this Pagerank important? Engadget has a Pagerank of 5 and Gizmodo has a Pagerank of 7 or 8 (Sorry I don`t have Toolbar installed). Does this means for a reader Gizmodo is way ahead of Engadget. I am sure this is something even the Gizmodo editors won`t agree to.

So the Pagerank is rendered useless for all three; webmasters, advertisers and readers. I would suggest people who still follow pagerank to please see the right picture, and move on.

Pagerank was useful to sell links, was useful to get paid review. I never quite understood why companies like Text-Link-Ads and ReviewMe used it in their algorithm though.

You could be a little more grateful since Google reevaluated your site with PageRank 5 again, don’t you think?

Grateful to Google!!!!
Can you please enlighten me, why anyone should be grateful to Google?

Is it because they gave us BS Pagerank metric, which was nothing but a marketing gimmick, or we should be grateful to Google that they are policing the web, and have emerged nothing more than a dictator.

If for anything we should be grateful, it should be beacuse, this time they showed to the world the real importance of Pagerank. Pagerank is official dead now. I was in the impression that Google’s job was to provide relevant search results and if they are going to penalized sites like Forbes, sfgate, engadget then only thing they will be compromising is their relevance. And IMHO, it’s going to hurt Google more in long run.

The backlash against Google’s recent moves was amazing to follow last week, and it’s been rare to see such little support for their actions. One of my favourites is from One Mans Blog who suffered a Page Rank 8 to 5 Page Rank reduction, ev…

My experience was exactly the same. I had just agreed a contract with Overture (now owned by Yahoo) for a pay for performance search contract, but the techies were adamant that Google were better. I didn’t want to use them and I was adamant that even if they ‘were’ better at search, they didn’t know how to monetise it as ‘Google was for the geeks’ - I was sick of hearing from techies how good google was. Eventually I relented, but it took a year. Now they are biting the hands that fed them, which I think is going to be a big, big mistake. Not quite ‘doing a Ratner’, but it might come close as it’s making people like Martin and I go into the search market for the first time in years looking for better search engines which we will start recommending.