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As a small publisher since 2004, every day for 14 years, I am sick and tired of Google's serfdom. Their monopoly on ads, their Panda updates, etc etc, do not re
by mudil 8y ago
As a small publisher since 2004, every day for 14 years, I am sick and tired of Google's serfdom. Their monopoly on ads, their Panda updates, etc etc, do not respect anyone else, but Google's interests. They will make internet into a strip mall like entity with the same boring list of players, the monotonous list of websites, all for their own profit and monopoly.
Internet is supposed to be about the content, ideas, journalism, etc. But there is virtually no VC investment in the content. Nothing. That is scary, and Google is single handedly responsible for it.
- lallysingh 8y agoIf you can reach your customers yourself, instead of Google sending them your way, why care about Google at all?
- mudil 8y agoBecause when you live in a serfdom, you are a serf. It's just the system we have under the Google's monopoly. And the system defines what you are able to achieve. See here: medgadget.com/google
- njarboe 8y agoWe need a micropayment system so I can donate a dime or a dollar to an article or info site I like. Seems like something the US government should do to improve peoples lives and promote commerce. They are the controllers of the US dollar after all. Then someone needs to set up a search engine that has the option of only returning sites that are controlled by an individual person, not a corp or non-profit or other group. I would be interesting to see how that might work.
- makz 8y agoThe bitcoin cash guys are tying to do that. https://www.moneybutton.com https://www.moneybutton.com https://www.yours.org https://www.yours.org
- ucaetano 8y ago> But there is virtually no VC investment in the content. Nothing Have you stopped to consider that content is a nearly-worthless commodity for which very few people are willing to pay actual cash for?
- mudil 8y agoNo, it's not. Content makes billions and trillions, and has always done it. From print to theater to radio to movies, since Gutenberg and Shakespeare and first newspapers, content been generating the revenue.
- ucaetano 8y agoThen I'm sure you'll have no problem finding people willing to pay to subscribe to your content. Take a look at the finances of content providers over the past 20 years. How many publishers, newspapers, studios, etc. shut down? Why do you think that is?
- mudil 8y agoHow about, for starters, that Google and FB control 85% of the ad market, with the rest going to everyone else. Also, I run a website for doctors. Google learns that my visitor is a doctor, and next time displays a doctor related ad on Candy Crush, when she is playing the game. So by invading her privacy, Google makes money and my website literally competes against Candy Crush for the ad revenue.
- ucaetano 8y agoNone of that solves for the fact that your readers aren't willing to pay anything to read your content. You can remove Google and Facebook, replace by anyone else, or eliminate it entirely. It still won't solve the problem: nobody wants to pay for your content. Maybe the problem is in your content...
- BRAlNlAC 8y ago
- forcer 8y agoI have the same attitude. Especially its been hard when Google entered our "niche" last year and suddenly became #1 result overnight: I blogged about it back then: http://blog.speedchecker.xyz/2017/07/20/lessons-learned-from-google-becoming-our-competitor/ http://blog.speedchecker.xyz/2017/07/20/lessons-learned-from...