Thread: Great site "google"

hi everyone,

Google is great site in the world. We all know it, it's really very helpful. In this site, we also search everything.

Originally Posted by rannat

hi everyone,

Google is great site in the world. We all know it, it's really very helpful. In this site, we also search everything.

canditate for the post of the day with the least value... at least it didnt have any spammy links I guess, so thats a start!

Language may be a barrier. But lets discuss.

Google is not the greatest site in the world. That would be either wikipedia, or MIT, CERN, possibly NASA.... maybe W3. I'm sure someone else can add a fer great ones to this list. Google isn't on it. They don't even give the most accurate web returns IMO.
They do offer helpful information to the novice webmaster. But, anything they offer has an alterior motive in it. They 'give' things away to get you to go to their site so they may track you. Then they go ahead and sell your psyche to the highest bidder(who happens to be auto mfg, pharmacuticals, lawyers).

Originally Posted by netometry

Language may be a barrier. But lets discuss.

Google is not the greatest site in the world. That would be either wikipedia, or MIT, CERN, possibly NASA.... maybe W3. I'm sure someone else can add a fer great ones to this list. Google isn't on it. They don't even give the most accurate web returns IMO.
They do offer helpful information to the novice webmaster. But, anything they offer has an alterior motive in it. They 'give' things away to get you to go to their site so they may track you. Then they go ahead and sell your psyche to the highest bidder(who happens to be auto mfg, pharmacuticals, lawyers).

I disagree that MIT and the rest are better than Google. They only serve content in their niche. NASA doesn't give you information on SEO for example. Wikipedia is a really good site I have to admit.

While Google doesn't have any content, it is a window to the world and allows you to find the content you are looking for. It may not be perfect with its search results but it is still the best search engine out there. It's not for nothign that it is consistently number 1 ahead of Yahoo and Bing.

Regarding its privacy policy, I tend to agree with you but then there is no such thing as a free lunch and if you don't accept their policy, don't use it.

Sigma, nice, thank you.

You've been to MiT open course ware and you like google better? OK, to each his own. If computer science, engineering, architecture, humanities, & mathematics all lumped together constitutes a "niche" that's your opinion and a very diverse niche.

I think this is questionable "NASA doesn't give you information on SEO for example", have you ever right click view source on nasa.gov? Brill. I've gotten many coding ideas from nasa.

Google... "and allows you to find the content you are looking for"

I disagree. Googles delivery is much less precise than yahoo's. Here is an example... type "how to index a website" into google and see how quickly the returns deteriorate. Same query on yahoo returns with deeper coherence. There are many examples of this.

"While Google doesn't have any content"
Google has tons of original content, consider labs dot google... but, it's all self serving apparati.

"if you don't accept their policy, don't use it"
I personally don't care what goog does with my info, and i know they use it...
But for the novice surfer who does care about information sharing, fuzzy policies buried behind a maze of linkage is not the mark of a forthright company.

This is an emminently debatable topic and all my words are merely opinion. I like google too. They probably add to the overall quality of the web in a positive way.

Netometry:
OK, my use of 'niche' was too narrow. Field or topic would be a better word. Can you find information about cooking recipes on MIT?

You are quite resourceful to find SEO tips on NASA, I grant you that. But it wasn't NASA that directed me to this forum!

Google is supposed to return better results than Yahoo. I am not speaking from experience here, only repeating what I've read so if you are convinced that Yahoo is better in the way you described, I am happy to believe you. But why did Google overtake yahoo as the better search engine then? Is it because people don't look beyond the first page of results?

I still believe Google doesn't have any original content. It may have loads of useful applications but these are not content or information - just tools. I use Google Analytics for e.g., G email, Adwords, Adsense and so on. Even G News is not content! It merely aggregates news from other sites.

I might be going off-topic here but I read a blog recently about how Google was hijacking other sites' traffic and contents by placing their contents immediately on the first page so users find what they are looking for without having to click on the website. Google's SEO mantra is that you should contribute original content (with penalties for duplicate content) but the irony is that it uses other sites' contents just to be able to do its core function.

In SERPs, Google doesn't approve of sites full of ads (for instance, Adsense) and little original content. Yet what is Google's search results page? Content copied from websites with ads added to the page. Just what Google says it doesn't like.

I am not here to kill off Google; in fact, I quite enjoy its free tools. I only want to put what it does in a different perspective.

Google is only greatest search engine and allows you to find the content which you are searching.

According to me google is the best search engine compare to any other search engine.If you search any information, google can give u brief and proper information.

I agree in this that Google is great and better than any search engine and so true that its really a big help and through this we can learn many things.

nice discussion here,

but actually Google should not be compared and categorized as a website. A web search engine is designed to search for information and/or websites on the world wide web.

Google is really a great site

Google is the best site in the world and no one can beat the it. We can get the best results of our searches in the Google.

google is the best search engine but not the best website.

Its Really one of the good post..!! with answer all you guys in this forum.

It's worthless. They take more from you then they give back. It violates the terms and conditions of most affiliate programs anyway.

Yes, google is one of the greatest resources that allows you to find everything that you want over the internet. Even A simple user like me can use it effectively.

I think Google is greatest search engine respect to all Search Engine. It is not great site. According to me Google is best search engine because my query is end here.

Realy google is such a Great Search engine for all newcomers and olders.

Google revolutionized the web space without which it was impossible to find accurate information.

Google is definitely the leading search engine at the moment but I'm finding that more and more it is due to the quality of it's advertisers rather than the quality of it's results.

I can find little difference in Bing & Google in their organic results for my search queries (mostly technical stuff for php etc.) But when I search for something commercial Google definitely has a better selection of sponsored links.