There are only four main search systems on the Web with almost the same search engine. Yahoo bought many of them, including AltaVista and Google.
Unfortunately, Yahoo is going to step on its own tail in an attempt to turn everything into a profit. Then it made Google a major target, getting rid of paid links there. But Yahoo stayed on top as well. Yahoo’s and Google’s first 100 results do not cross each other. Overall, each search differs only in its ability to give better results.
Yahoo pushed Microsoft to expand investigation of its engine. Microsoft has a good chance to leave Google behind, the same as Netscape. Spammers helped to solve a riddle of Google. There was no special formula of successful crawling. To build a search engine is not a secret anymore for anybody. The question is: “For what?”
Google, doubtless, is going much better than the others. It surveys almost 75 percent of all incoming information on the Web. If Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft make a war among themselves to struggle for first place, it will not be in our favor. The Web will change in unpredictable ways. Google is holding many webmasters under pressure. The main problem is in Google itself, who is fighting for advertisements. Sometimes, unexpected items can appear from your search results. It serves the influence the user to pay attention to the new referral. The advertisers are ready to pay Google generously for it.
Yahoo (and Microsoft, too) is hunting for those advertisers who want to place their ads in better locations. Despite the unexpected money stream from advertising, Google is serving a nonprofit-oriented part of the Web. Domain levels such as org, edu and gov don’t belong to the part that is making a lot of money. Experts are wanting new domains that will bring them a new pile of money.
Losing the interest to the developing AltaVista put Google on the top of the Web.
Nobody cares about the noncommercial sector; there is no Library of Congress site, for instance. Ford Foundation and the United Nations donated tons of money for public-sector purposes. It seems like the Internet is going to be crucified while everybody is watching.
From the second view, the reason for the fighting is Google’s data. The Government attended the war after September 11. Toward the purpose of security, Google didn’t open access to their information.
The situation from both sides is unclear; neither Washington spies or Google want to share their information. Even after the Government gave the last ones more possibilities. This problem is considered an important issue only to Google, Inc., itself.
There is only one articulated thing: Google’s data is not completely secure, and it influences the rest of the Web.
This combating triggered another pain in the neck for Google – Google Watch found the Page ranking problem. It means that high ranging pages can mark pages stronger than they are in fact.
We understand that Google might turn into a wormy apple if they will not change anything. But at the same time, Google Watch is trying to enunciate the Google situation, using our information. It could be a powerful addition to solve the main issue.
Why was Google nominated for a Big Brother award in 2003?
1. Google’s cookies forever. Google was the first who used long-term cookies after the Government banned the cookies that were placed constantly. These days constant cookies are not a miracle on the Web, regarding Google. These cookies assign a special number that updates itself by Google reading this number every time you are on the page.
2. Fact: Google is a good collector. When you open any Google page, your special number (ID), your computer’s IP address, the information you entered into the searching bar and your browser parameters – everything goes to Google’s database.
3. Not any closed door for Google. Google can access your data anytime they need.
4. Google can keep their mouths shut. They never tell you why they need all this information. I mean, never.
5. Google helps spies with jobs. Google has many open vacations for professionals with secret-work experience who can easily deliver the information to the Washington spies.
6. Google is watching you everywhere. Google’s toolbar reads all your cookies on every page you get, even if it is not a Google page. One of the search engines lost their case when they couldn’t make it clear why they do it. After that, Google included this information in their privacy policy. This toolbar updates automatically, giving to Google the way to the user’s hard drive during his or her connection to Google. This kind of software is aggressively dangerous when it does not ask the user for an update.
7. Google is a good copy machine. Every site’s cache is copied by Google. Webmasters prevent copying by placing a special meta to their sites.
8. Google does not like webmasters. 75 percent of inquiring information is going through Google. To design a site to make more traffic you have to give access to your site to Google. Otherwise, you’ll lose your opportunity to develop the site and Google could ban you. It is difficult to understand. Also nobody can explain on what conditions Google is basing their penalizing. Seems like Google doesn’t care about it.
9. We are waiting for the second Big Bang. With countless search results all over the world Google could blow up the current privacy of all internet users. Washington might be jealous of Google’s flexibility.
I wish all users would understand the influence of the results of their searches. I think that there are smart people in the world who can make a strong protected system with flexibility more than Google has. Every user would choose sources and referrals of his or her search. I suppose we have to think about our future today; otherwise, we’ll not have it. The Internet is a very powerful structure, but I hope we will manage it ourselves.
