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Ever notice how testy everyone is getting all of a sudden? Computer man included! Maybe it is the season of the year. Whatever it is, it reminds Remote Helpdesk 1 of the moods of King David as recorded in the Old Testament and the Torah.
My how a change in perishables like popularity affects people and businesses. Online computer repair techs have seen it all before, and counsels everyone to just settle down. Believe it or not, like it or not, the pendulum swings and what goes around comes around though certainly not as swiftly as we would sometimes like.
Having spent 13 years in the service of the United States, dacomputerman watched the government order crack downs on this and on that, and it lasted for awhile. It bites when a new offensive is launched. The saving grace is in the knowledge is that it will normally be short lived.
Such moves are like news...tomorrow it is not. Something else happens. The wheel turns and life moves on. The new action or inaction is suddenly what is in vogue.
As an example, The small town police department gets the fever and announces a crack down on speed, or seat belts, or whatever and one seemingly cannot move without encountering a patrol officer short on his/her quota. Then suddenly the motorist realizes the pressure is off and he is cruising less nervously.
Whether a crack down by city hall, a new business in the community putting a temporary strain on more established firms, a sudden regulation infraction retribution and enforcement by the military, or Google tightening up standards they had been leaking warnings about for some time all things run the same course. And, as Bill W. taught us "this to shall pass".
It hurt the Tennessee Mountain Man just as it hurt most other folks when Google apparently decided there were just certain ways it was not willing to allow web masters to profit off it's back. But the warnings had been around for a long time that buying and selling links could cost you dearly in Google's page rank scheme.
One of Computer Man's sites which had never dreamed of using a link farm or of buying links went from a page rank of 8 to 0 over night. That smarts, and it cost us some links. Our page rank has started coming back. Thank you. But that was not the hardest website hit. One site was actually seen reduced to -1. The only minus rating we have ever seen. There may be others out there, but Computerman has not seen them.
Computer Man's Website Design and Promotion management said it had a problem with Google setting up a snitch program like a drug task force and encouraging web masters to report one another on mere suspicion. This is not federal law, violation of the 10 Commandments, possession of crack cocaine, or manufacture and distribution of the highly addictive and deadly meth. Such action leads to jealous people creating problems for their competition simply because they can.
Now, if Google or anyone else on the web wishes to remove another from their directories, list, links or anything else they have that right. But, they should say what they are actually practicing..."I did it because I wanted to....I did it because I can". Done pure, plain, and simple. Google founders and management, however, apparently prefer to run around all holy proclaiming, "do what is right", when in the China issue among others they proved what they meant was "do what is right for my bottom line".
Google has fired it's shot over the bow. Let the web masters who need and count on Google listings and page rankings adjust their websites to play by the new rules. Webmasters are used to the ever changing internet, and this is just a minor, temporary adjustment as Google continues to play with it's algorithm.
Google may have forgotten where they came from, forgot when they were only a list supplier to Yahoo, forgot how they got where they are. Today, however, they sit at the head of the table. Tomorrow they too will be supplanted.
A man climbing the flag pole will eventually get high enough that his friends, enemies and the indifferent see and take notice of him. If he keeps climbing, he soon enough gets high enough for all to see his ass and start taking shots at him, and many of them hit their mark.
Soon enough the rich and powerful forget they are not God, they just been playing Him for a short period of time on the short lived stage of life. Becoming complacent they fail to see or take seriously the arrival of the young raider and ignores his shot over the bow. What goes around has just come around.
//s// remote helpdesk 1
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