Comments on: Get your search fix with two videos

By: Rashmi

Rashmi — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:26:05 +0000

Hello Matt,

Will cuil.com overcome Google in next few years???

Thanks,
Rashmi

By: Dave (original)

Dave (original) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:35:58 +0000

panzermike, the Google Webmaster guidelines define what they consider SE spam, if that’s what you mean.

Not sure that “do no evil” refers to Webmasters, rather a fanciful standard Google holds themselves to.

By: Craig Klein

Craig Klein — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:19:06 +0000

Great stuff! A friend of mine who’s a PPC guru, Todd Miechiels, told me to “check out Matt’s blog”. I’m here and I’m glad. The murky water is clearing…

By: panzermike

panzermike — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:39:39 +0000

@ Dave Original:

Yeah I think it is absurd as well, but still, that is how they base whether they will ban you, or rank you. So we need to determine what is “evil” and what isn’t.

For example, some believe the right to bear arms is evil, some believe homosexuality is evil. Still, others believe other things are or are not evil.

We need to know how the subjective criteria of “Google evil” is converted into the objective Google algorithms. Anything less is simply evil.

By: Dave (original)

Dave (original) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:21:21 +0000

I reserve words like “evil” for Ethnic cleansing etc. IMO, Google was quite wrong to use the motto “do no evil” as it dilutes the true evilness of humanity.

By: panzermike

panzermike — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:55:12 +0000

@Dave Original: I agree with you. I was just wondering if it is evil?

By: Dave (original)

Dave (original) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:22:51 +0000

Hiding any visible element is downright stupid over “evil”. Imagine YOU are the end user? You find an image on Google image search, go to the site page….and cannot find the image. Would you come back?

If you have to resort to gamming SE & your own site vistors, you have as much potential as a Moth flying around a light bulb.

By: panzermike

panzermike — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:41:44 +0000

Matt:

I ran across this link on DIGG. The author states he increased traffic by like 70,000 hits with Google Images. He says it is good to hide your images so people will stay on the page.

My question is that since it is for traffic instead of Page Rank, is it “evil”

http://www.pjmorrow.com/2008/02/how-i-accidentaly-got-70000-unique.html

By: Peter (IMC)

Peter (IMC) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:08:00 +0000

oh they´re not both hosted on youtube,.. lol,.. the slow one is on youtube, the other on Google.

But Google owns them both, no?

By: Peter (IMC)

Peter (IMC) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:06:24 +0000

I don’t get it.

That first video is loading like it’s hosted on the server in our office. Using the full bandwidth of our internet connection (4 Meg, not huge but it works fine.)

That second video isn’t loading very well at all. Using not even 5% of available bandwidth.

I had the same problem yesterday at home, so it’s not our connection.

They´re both hosted on youtube, aren’t they???