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Warmest Greetings,
:: Friday, December 13, 2002 ::
Watch What You Say. Google Is Listening.
Inspired by a Fantomaster tip off about Googlism's, I typed in "cre8pc.com" and got the following feedback from Google:
Quote:
Googlism for: cre8pc.com
cre8pc.com is a labor of love
cre8pc.com is also supported by
cre8pc.com is a porn site
cre8pc.com is consistently in the top 10
cre8pc.com is the honest
cre8pc.com is a search engine
cre8pc.com is the only internet promotion website in the us run by a woman who is accessible to her visitors
A PORN SITE?????????????????????????????????? Is a search engine?
I think I know how Google came to the conclusion my site is a porn site. I wrote on this page, About Cre8pc, the following:
"My very first website, in 1995, was called Dancing Thunder's Playground, and everyone thought it was a porn site. It wasn't. It was about building websites, which I had no idea how to do. I was a newly divorced mother of two children who happened to like computers and wanted to build websites so I could support us. "Dancing Thunder " is a name given to me by Internet friends back then when I didn't sign my real name anywhere, but used "Timid Thunder" instead. My ancestry includes Cherokee, Blackfoot and Shawnee, and my Great Grandfather brought his family over from Sweden on a ship in 1912. My friends changed my name to "Dancing Thunder" because they said I'm not timid. What the heck do they know? But, I liked the name."
From this, Google has pulled information out of context. I'm sure no one will complain when a Googlism portrays them or their website in a good light, but what about those whose Googlism is just plain gobblety gook?
Considering the expectations for excellence Google has for SEO's, the least they could do is provide the same from themselves. Taking a bunch of words from pages and making up information about that site is really crude and unacceptable, even if it IS a new Google dog trick to show off their Phd employees.
Googlism
Don't take it literally. Google is not God and Googlisms are not divine commandments. Google is a search engine. Therefore, it, like the rest of us, is not perfect.
:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 12/13/2002 07:47:40 AM
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