Google doesn’t want you to make profit, except as it allows

[peter_d]

Insightful stuff, as always, from Johnon.

http://www.johnon.com/399/google-las-vegas.html

If Google is busy or distracted, you can get away with stuff. But if Google is paying attention, you can’t. So when you do something that makes profits beyond where Google wants to allow, you are at risk of being managed by Google. Before, Google was very busy and not very good at policing the profits earned on the web. Today, Google has far greater resources, less competiton, and is very, very knowledgeable about what profit levels should be for various businesses on the web. And if you don’t like that, too bad. It’s the nature of competition

[Steven_D]

interesting article imo.

My comments left on his site.

"Google doesn’t own the web" they may not own it, but try and get traffic to your site without it. Its like oil in a car, the oil doesnt own the car but the car wont run without it. Google is a business, and like a business they can and should do what ever they need to, to stack the deck in their favour. Your kind of making it sound like google isnt playing fair (like a casino) and I dont think thats fair to say. They have shareholders that they have to satisfy.

But overall your analogy seems quite correct, SEO experts would be the card counters and normal business owners would be the dumb punters who loose their weeks pay @ the craps table.

Nice article

[bond007]

Nice article. Unfortunately it's a bit scary.