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You are reading too much in to it.
by pavs 17y ago
You are reading too much in to it.
- qeorge 17y agoI don't think Patrick read into anything there. He does not imply that Google did this intentionally at all. His point holds water for me, getting blocked by Google is a huge problem for any business, and its impossible to get in touch with Google short of making a fuss. Consider this tweet from Dropbox: "Having trouble reaching the right folks @ Google re: browser warnings; email abuse@dropbox.com to help, thanks" http://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/5612052146 http://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/5612052146 Not to mention, the timing sucks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935009 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935009 (Google announces today they've increased their storage quota to 20GB/$5, which happens to be very competitive with Dropbox). Not getting out the tinfoil hat, but this isn't right.
- ericd 17y agoNot really, his point is valid. They wield a terrifying amount of power over most web-based businesses, and they're not very careful with it as they're not beholden to any site. If you get bumped from their index, you can immediately lose a very large percentage of your traffic and have very little hope of regaining it on the MONTHS timeframe. For a startup, that could mean game over.