I’m pretty sure at least some of you know that Google has been receiving a lot of criticism lately because their ad agency Unruly Media basically bought links through their Google Chrome campaign, so the ad agency basically exactly what Google tells webmasters not to do. Well, it seems that the Google team did the right thing and as Matt Cutts explained, Chrome has been penalized. Among other things, it dropped from position #2 to position #50 for the term “browser”.
Now you can say a lot of things about Google but they definitely did the right thing. After all, it’s their website and everything but they still chose an ethical solution and that’s something for which they deserve to be congratulated in my opinion.
January 4th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
Isn’t that pretty stupid? I mean, if it was some other company they would not penalize some product page on the co. website, but here it’s exactly what they do. To do it right they should have penalized Google.com, not Google Chrome’s pages.
January 4th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
i would have done the same thing given the ongoing antitrust issues
January 5th, 2012 at 2:32 am
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January 5th, 2012 at 9:26 am
good work they did.
January 5th, 2012 at 9:49 am
Google receives no respect. They eliminated my top keywords. In result, my revenue evaporated. Now that Panda restored the keywords several months later, the revenue is gone. It will take several months to make the revenue again. One year worth of revenue is gone.
They should push Google Chrome to page #55 instead of #55. My authored article that another website copied got my article and site pushed from number #1 to page #70.
If Google performed this unethical act to penalize their browser, then they have most likely done other things as well. The Panda updates kept bad coupon sites and eHow ranked,
whereas the good sites without any affiliation to Google were pushed back.
In my opinon, they are penalizing their unethical act but peope will still know where to find Chrome. It fixes nothing. They cost people ranking and revenue. They get 0% respect. If we didn’t have to depend on the company so much, we could work with Yahoo/Bing. WhyPark lost out a lot with sites getting de ranked and de indexed. Google and Why Park once worked together. Then, WhyPark decided to choose Yahoo/Bing as advertisers. Eventually, all good keyword WP sites got hit. It can be proven with past traffic reports and Google visiting the site s before eliminating the traffic and de ranking and or de indexing all competitive sites.
January 5th, 2012 at 10:04 am
By ‘ethical’ I take it you mean that they have partly said they are wrong – if it had been ethical they would have removed it from the search engines entirely, I guess that is not what Big Brother wants to do though, is it!
It is about time certain blogs, etc., actually came out and said ‘Google rules and that is OK by me’ instead of all the BS posts going on about how wonderful Google is – I wonder how many do/are/have relied on Google money for their income. No respect from me for any blog which does not tell the whole truth, and thankfully slowly but surely that is becoming the view of more and more internet users and professionals.
January 5th, 2012 at 10:26 am
If its penalized why they don’t remove it completely from the search term i.e “”browser”” . but you say its dropped to #55.
January 5th, 2012 at 10:48 am
It will be interesting to see how they are ranking in about 2 weeks. Google chrome could just be doin a little of the google dance.
January 5th, 2012 at 11:13 am
Nice update. They can rank it later….
January 5th, 2012 at 11:39 am
This has about the same effect as regulatory agencies investigating themselves. Ultimately, in the end, it’ll mean nothing at all.
January 5th, 2012 at 11:44 am
it seems in society , we have a frame work , if it be civil law
or business law here in the uk
Google is a big pain in the ass , as for no reason after investing
lots of money into a business , hiring staff etc etc
you can lose your website into dark space , lose your home , staff lose jobs and those americans dont give a Sh*t
welcome to the 21st century 🙂
January 5th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Nice to see that they penalized themselves, but i suspect it will be short lived — they’ll ‘correct’ their errors and be back up near the top of the rankings in no time. (which is they same that they’ve treated other big brands like BMW, etc)
January 5th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
I don’t trust Google at all its all about money with them, I hope in the future someone comes along and takes this 800 lb gorilla down to size.
They don’t want a piece of the pie they want the whole bakery.
Richard