Bing Gaining On Google, Yahoo

All of you webmasters need to get on over to Bing.com

 submit your site and get your webmaster account set up.

Even though Bing (MS Live) is the little guy facing a daunting giant (Google) when it comes to search engines,  we are witnessing the begining of what some may very well see as another greed driven monopoly giant about to be brought to their knees.

Microsoft is a formidable opponent and has the resources,  this time they’re not charging into battle half cocked .  Google would do well to maintain a 20% market share when the dust settles this time,  they have a long battle ahead and will more than likely be de-throned inside of 18 months from today.

Will Google follow a path similar to AOL?

They say ;

1.  find a niche

2.  provide relevant content that people want

3. optimise your site, update frequently,  Acquire quality back-links to your site

4. blah blah blah blah…..

We can go on and on but we are following the great Google of OZ rules here!

And those with high ranking pages and sites in Googles’ engine will be first to argue with you on googles behalf, because like it or not search engines have been monetized and is a multi billion dollar market, so if you were the first guy to build a website around google crap-ola and spend x amount of advertising dollars with google then you are likely to hold a top spot simply because you were first in category and spend ad dollars, this makes it extremely difficult for the little guy on a shoe string budget or the mom and pop e-tailer to compete when The great Google Of OZ says  your site content is already available on many other sites that rank very well on google,  sites which already spend ad dollars, have relevant back links ect.

If you build it they will come…WRONG - no they won’t because Google of OZ has already determined how relevant your site is based on the All mighty Google algorithms…your success or failure lies squarely in the hands of Googles Judgment of your content,  which is skewed by googles greed and leaves no room for the entrepreneur or mom and pop e-tailer.

Sure you may have several sites that rank well in google and that fact alone gives you a hand up in future success simply because of  those sites that already rank in google and of course provide valuable backlinks to each other.

I don’t care how good or functional your site is,  without page rank and several relevant quality backlinks to jump start your site,  you are fighting a losing battle. 

It’s really very simple, this whole process is monetarily driven and if you’re not prepred to spend the ad dollars to compete for a position then you will be left on the outside looking in and not likely to acquire a decent ranking no matter how hard you work on your site optimisation.

Why… because no one is going to link to your site if you have little or no google page rank unless they are paid links.

Google’s consistently losing share (0.59 percent between April and June).  Yahoo’s down from its April levels, too (0.23 percent).  In fact, of the top three search engines, only Microsoft’s offering cornered more market share in the last couple of months.

And although a rise of 1.02 percent doesn’t sound like a lot, if you look at the figure with respect to Microsoft’s starting point of 7.21 percent.

The last thing that Google wants to see is lost market share. Google is all about maximizing every dollar that advertisers put into AdWords.

 A loss of market share corresponds to a loss of marketing dollars, and thus a lower stock price.

While Microsoft is gaining ground, just remember that their products are many and is only based fractionally in search.

 Google is search, so they are getting beat up on their home turf.

Googlers Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson announced that the company was embarking on a new project: the Google Chrome Operating System.What we do know is Google will feed you 10 miles O ‘ crap to convince you that the Google rules are just, but don’t take my word for it…just have a look at some of the sites that you can find around the net that rank well in google.

After the Web browser launched last year, many people anticipated a Google OS as the company’s next move.

Google Chrome OS is open source and is intended for netbooks; however, the system is said to be equipped to power large desktop systems as well. The three main aspects of the operating system are speed, simplicity, and security. Although Google will construct its own windowing system, the new OS will run on top of the kernel from the open source Linux OS.

According to the Google blog post making the announcement, the OS will not be available to consumers until the second half of 2010.

As Google prepares to enter the operating system market, many questions come to mind. First of all, is this a direct attack against Microsoft since Bing appears to be making legitimate progress?

 Will Google’s OS exist as a serious contender to the alternative operating systems? How will consumers and computer manufacturers react? Will Google be hit with more antitrust investigations?

Is this a Google counter attack?

Although there are many unanswered questions associated with this news, one thing that is certain is that Google has just taken on a challenging mission.

 

 

I have found many sites with high rank and in the top 10 search results and have less than 100 words of typed content.   So excuse me for not buying in to the whole pile O’ crap “your content” ,   when you see other sites with very little text, content and no alt text in images rank as high as 6 or 7 in google while you struggle with every aspect of SEO including relevant text content, keywords, tags and get a zero page rank while finding other sites with graphics,  little or no content ranking high in google.

So how do you justify high rankings based on a few graphics with no real  text content and rank the next site that has an abundance of relevant text with a rank of zero …. is it the ad dollar revenues that google is harvesting and back- links just one of the many items Google is using to attempt to mask the greedy tactics they have adopted…..hmm is this  just,  equal consideration and do you really believe Google should decide wether or not your content is usefull rather than actual users of the search engine?

To rank in googles’ search engine… Well it’s only a matter of Ad Dollars and how much you can spend to get there!

Conclusion;  It does appear that Googles’ greed,  monetary and unfair search engine inclusion will be it’s un-doing and has already opened the door for Bing (MS Live).  We will have to wait and see how microsoft will manage their bid for your business and if search results will be as monetarily biased as google has proven to be.

Google will ultimately become the biggest looser in this battle, the real question is….will they loose the war entirely?

M. Moore

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