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Dump everything Google?

I’ve been reading Podz’s distaste with Google. I think it started with Blogger, because someone copied his website exactly. Content, layout, pics - everything. Google didn’t do anything for him, because they stated that they can’t do anything about it.

I don’t know if he had a problem with Gmail, but since he kept it at 5MB most of the time, he switched back to using his email account through his site.

Should I break as many ties with Google as I can? It’s not like A9, Yahoo, or MSN Search are lame - for the most part, Google has been really good with their search algorithms. However, is there a deeper motive?

If I do decide to cut as many ties to Google as I can, what do I do about my email accounts? Everything is forwarded to Gmail at the moment.

Here’s some Podz rants and links:

…and that’s not all. You should definitely search his site for Google and see what he has to say. I think he has good points for the most part. Please note there might be some swearing over there.

P.S. I typed this right before midnight last night on my PDA, and just copy and pasted it here this morning. Cut me some slack for any confusion I might’ve written. :)

 

7 Comments

Perhaps he should ban the google bot from his website with a robots.txt file :rollseyes:

But that’s not going to happen. Google is too good to him.

Posted by Anthony on 18 May 2005 @ 5pm

He did ban Googlebot:
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2005/04/24/google-screws/

“Either way Googlebot is banned, and I shall be watching the logs to see if it disobeys.”

Posted by MacManX on 18 May 2005 @ 5pm

Personally, I’m torn between two sides on this issue. Podz is right about everything he has said about Google. GoogleImages will steal your images and artwork whether you’ve filed a copyright or not, and they do some shady things behind the scenes, but I believe that Google’s search engine is still the best out there, and it still returns very useful results when compared to MSN and A9. In the end, I don’t mind Google crawling my site, and I prefer searching with Google, but I am using robots.txt to keep the Googlebot out of my images, music, and movies.

My experiences with MSN Search

Posted by MacManX on 18 May 2005 @ 5pm

Tech Baton

Well, you know what goes on in my music life, so I thought I would give an insight to my tech life as well.
What was the the last ‘tech’ item you bought?
Some JBL Speakers that I love, they are awesome!
What’s the last online purch…

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Posted by MacManX.com » Blog Archive » Blogroll Dive: 5/23/05 on 23 May 2005 @ 12am

Google bad? No, it can’t be! Say it isn’t so!

Actually, it very well could be so, and I posted to that effect yesterday.

For a company whose motto was supposed to be “Do no evil,” they certainly are doing a lot of questionable things.

Posted by IO ERROR on 23 May 2005 @ 10pm

Whoa, nice! I’m inching myself away from Gmail, of course. I’m definitely going to install the “Screw NoFollow” plugin, too. :)

Posted by Bryan on 23 May 2005 @ 11pm

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