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If you, as a webmaster or developer, needs to inform search engines when you your content has changed, you just became part of the search-engine. If that is wh

by trezor 16y ago

If you, as a webmaster or developer, needs to inform search engines when you your content has changed, you just became part of the search-engine. If that is what is required, and everyone on the internet needs to build google-hooks into their server-side website logic to not be SEO'd to death, I think its safe to say that google just stopped being useful. I hope that in 2011 people will start seeing beyond the Google RDF which has gotten increasingly annoying throughout the last year: We need more competition in this space. Pronto. Making your website part of the google search-engine will not accelerate this. It's not a "good" solution. It's barely a solution at all.

mootothemax 16y ago
It's not a "good" solution. It's barely a solution at all. I couldn't agree with you more; it's a stupid problem to have and one that shouldn't exist. It seems like the time is ripe for either a Google-killer to emerge in the next couple of years, or for Google to improve themselves in the same amount of time. Personally I believe that decent competition would be the healthiest way, but let's not kid ourselves; as soon as one search engine starts being used by a decent proportion of users, the SEO blackhats are going to try and game it just as much as they do with Google.