Comments on: Bing to take over Yahoo! Search http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/07/29/bing-to-take-over-yahoo-search/ The only tech you need Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben Sillis http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/07/29/bing-to-take-over-yahoo-search/comment-page-1/#comment-47393 Ben Sillis Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:37 +0000 http://www.electricpig.co.uk/?p=37212#comment-47393 Google got rich off the content of others? I fear that's the way the world has been working for millennia... Google got rich off the content of others? I fear that’s the way the world has been working for millennia…

]]> By: Mickey http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/07/29/bing-to-take-over-yahoo-search/comment-page-1/#comment-46572 Mickey Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:52:07 +0000 http://www.electricpig.co.uk/?p=37212#comment-46572 Art, I agree with you so much on your comments. Big business took over Google. All website owners care about these days is getting backlinks. Content is suffering due to this. Another tangent, but Google got rich off of other people content. I am still confounded by that. Art,
I agree with you so much on your comments. Big business took over Google.

All website owners care about these days is getting backlinks. Content is suffering due to this.

Another tangent, but Google got rich off of other people content. I am still confounded by that.

]]> By: Art Johnstone http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/07/29/bing-to-take-over-yahoo-search/comment-page-1/#comment-44517 Art Johnstone Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:18:10 +0000 http://www.electricpig.co.uk/?p=37212#comment-44517 At least Bing and Yahoo give fair results – Google used to but over time its obsession with PR and link popularity have meant that in the main only the larger sites who can employ staff to search for, and buy links all day long, can reach the top of the free listings. That has little or nothing to do with search relevance at all, it merely means that companies with the most disposable assets get to the top, and the smaller guys whose products and services may be at least as good or better just get the crumbs. At least Bing and Yahoo give fair results – Google used to but over time its obsession with PR and link popularity have meant that in the main only the larger sites who can employ staff to search for, and buy links all day long, can reach the top of the free listings. That has little or nothing to do with search relevance at all, it merely means that companies with the most disposable assets get to the top, and the smaller guys whose products and services may be at least as good or better just get the crumbs.

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