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too funny ...

... it makes my belly hurt. Get this:

"We deal with millions of Web masters who can't configure a server, can't write HTML. It's hard for them to go to the next step."

Yeah, well boo-hoo. Right now millions of web masters are dealing with Google, whose search results are incomplete or grossly out of date garbage, and whose ever-changing "rules" about how sites will be listed (or even if they will) are either an April Fools joke or a clear example of chaos theory in operation.

These guys are now so far behind the other majors in terms of timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of their search database that it's a wonder their stock hasn't been sold out from under them down to the threshold for de-listing.

It is certainly true that there are a lot of incompetent web "masters" out there, and not a few gangsters attempting to trick themselves into high PR for their spam offerings.

But that doesn't account for why a steadily rising crescendo of really competent webmasters decry weird and inconsistent search results from different data centers, arbitrary bouncing of long-established and obviously legitimate sites, and general lack of any real response from Google to account for why they have created this global "World Wide Mess", even while their search competitors are rocking right along, producing the fast and reliable updates and search responses which were once a Google trademark.

Standards are important, and it's likely that lack of universal compliance will be a continuing problem. Even most large-corp sites are not compliant with long-standing HTML4 standards.

But it appears unseemly for anyone in Google senior management to be complaining about *other* peoples' incompetence after the past several months of serial disasters as the infamous BigDaddy changeover has staggered around like a throwing-up, falling-down, knee-walking drunk.

Posted by: code_flogger   Posted on: 07/19/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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