Comments on: Google is a Joke

By: lady

lady — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:56:59 +0000

i too was punished by google.. from PR-4 to PR-0..Whether John Chow loses his page rank or not it doesn’t matter, his got an established, branded name. It doesnt really affect him that much. He will still get visitors even if he loses his PR. I am more bothered with the $5K to avoid site deletion. ..I think i have to read the exact story….why would DMOZ charge shoemoney that amount…

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By: Robert MacEwan

Robert MacEwan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:41:26 +0000

The adult in me says it is algorithmic.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:52:33 +0000

Yeah i think it is difficult to find out if it was manual or not… so were just going to have to guess…

By: Halfdeck

Halfdeck — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:34:34 +0000

If Google applied a manual penalty to John’s site, then there’s cause for a riot. And clearly, johnchow.com is under a penalty.

But so far, I haven’t seen anything that proves the penalty was manual. If its algorithmic, then its just a matter of cleaning up some of John’s dodgy links and submitting a reinclusion request.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:18:35 +0000

ok don so how do you explain going from #1 for the term ‘make money online’ to like page 6 - 7 ? and not being #1 for his own name ? google has fucked him over…

By: Don

Don — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:49:34 +0000

Do you really think Google is out to get John Chow? Billions of web pages in their database and they are going to single out one guy’s page and change their results just for him? I don’t think so.

If Chow’s page is ranked lower it’s because Google has changed their page rank algorithm or the nature of the links to Chow’s site have changed.

I’ve read a lot of post recently like: “Google hates me” or “Google did such and such to my site”. Google results and ranks are the result of some convoluted algorithms. They are not personal assessments of a site or attacks on individuals.