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All Hail the Googlement! Or Else

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Sign in to your Google AdSense account in the past couple of days? No…?

This is what greets you!

Why do they say Please Review when you don’t have a choice? You get Three Options for now… until May 25th

• I Agree
• Remind Me Later
• Disagree (cannot use AdSense)

After May 25th you either accept their dictates or you can’t use AdSense on your Site(s) even if you have been with the program for years.

And now for the Bad News…

You have to have a privacy policy that fits “THEIR” program and include a user option for cookie management? How do you do that? I don’t know, but I’ll have to find out if I want to use AdSense on any of my sites. And so will you.

I am really beginning to think that Google wants to OWN the Internet.

Google is the Largest Search Engine

They want you to use the Google Toolbar so they can track your Internet usage (supposedly to enhance your experience)

They dictate how we can and can’t be indexed for SEO (don’t kid yourself, the other SE’s follow their lead)

It USED to be Ok to have other Advertising on your site as long as it wasn’t contextual, until they decided that ANY text ads were bad.

Google fell Out of Love with non-US publishers although they may (or may not) be reconsidering that decision.

They said that Page Rank was your Authority on a Subject. They changed that to your authority as they see fit as long as you play by their rules.

Now this.

What’s next? You won’t be able to have your own Blog unless it fits the Blogger mold? You can’t have anything indexed unless you belong to Google Services? If you ask nicely on bended knee, the Great and Powerful Google will grant your wish?

All Hail the Googlement! Hail Caesar! Heil Hitler!

Glad I got that out, but I think it will get a lot worse trying to work on the internet before it gets better.

If you want an easy to understand overview of all the Changes to the AdSense TOS you should read JenSense’s post on all the changes. She is a lot nicer than I about this whole thing.

February 28th, 2008 at 05:54am | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Google | reader remarks | Print This Post

Poll Results: How Did Google’s Page Rank Change Affect Your Blog?

Well, the results of the How Did Google’s Page Rank Change Affect Your Blog? poll are in. Frankly, I was a bit surprised at the result. I thought the Went Down would far out number the rest of the results.

As you can see 42% or 10 Bloggers reported that their page rank actually Went Up. Closely followed by the Went Down bunch at 33% (8).

17% or 4 reported an unchanged result in their status. And 2 or 8% really thought that PR is irrelevant to their Blogs.

With 3 out of 5 Blogs I read daily reporting that their Blogs Fell in the Google Page Rank, I really thought that the results might have reflected something more along those lines. It’s not the first time I’ve been wrong.

Congrats to all of you who experienced an increase in Page Rank. And my empathy to the Google-less Gang.

Thanks to all who participated.

November 13th, 2007 at 12:41pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Google | reader remarks | Print This Post

How Did Google’s Page Rank Change Affect Your Blog? A Poll

 I was curious after reading quite a few posts regarding the Google Page Rank changes over the past few days how it may have affected YOUR Blogs, and whether you care or not.

Please indulge me a little and take a few seconds to fill out this Poll…

Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.

It will be in the Sidebar all week and as always, feel free to comment below. 

Thanks,

Joe

October 30th, 2007 at 06:17am | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Google | 14 reader remarks | Print This Post