Nov
14
2003Is Google Dying?
14
2003
There has been a lot of talk from the technorati about Google’s technology starting to lose its luster. I’m starting to see what they’re talking about. Google’s PageRank technology is clearly losing the war against “Google-spammers”, who create “link farms” which distort the Google search index. The other day I was looking for a tool to edit a MIDI file. I just wanted something simple so I could modify a ringtone for my phone. I did a search for “free midi editor“. If you follow that search link, you’ll find that practically all of the links go to “junk portals”. For example, the 11th result goes to the URL: www.travelspecialistgroup.com/uk1/oversandstravel/ i-q-test-score.htm - which, ironically, has nothing to do with: A) Free MIDI editors, B) travel, or C) IQ tests. It just pops up a couple ads on a garish green page.
Come on, Google, we all know you can do better than that. One can only hope you’re not so obsessed with fun new toys, and the impending IPO, that you’re letting your core technology wither and die.