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Will Google ever truly fail?

29 May, 2008  2 Comments

Joe Anderson is running a critique on Google - not the search aspect, gmail, or Reader - and the failure of many of its applications.  He discusses the dismal ‘Google Answers’ and even less popular ‘Google Video’, but missed what I believe are the most “use-less” Google applications.  When I use the term “use-less”, I do not mean that the applications are poorly designed or implemented, they just are not as useful as the competition.

  1. Google Product Search - The description of this application is, “Search for stuff to buy.”  Great, a second search engine that crawls the same websites as Google itself.  I am yet to find a use for this.
  2. Google Finance - Come on, we already have Fidelity, E*Trade, CNN Money, and a myriad of other financial repositories;  stay out of this are Google.
  3. Google Health - No matter what anyone tells you, putting medical records online is an awful idea.  For that matter, medical records should not even be on your computer where they are easily accessible by anyone with computer knowledge.

What Google application is the most “use-less” to you?  Which is the most “use-ful”?

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Event Horizon: Google Page Rank Update

25 May, 2008  5 Comments

Thats right folks, Google is going to update their page rank within the next 12 days. That would bring the time lapse between two PR updates to 100 days, leading to the belief that it is time to update the PRs. Below are the last 10 PR updates by date and days between.

Date Updated Update Type Days Lapsed
4/26/2006 TBPR Export 45
7/13/2006 TBPR & BL Export 100
9/28/2006 TBPR & BL Export 76
1/10/2007 TBPR & BL Export 101
1/25/2007 TBPR & BL Export 18
4/30/2007 TBPR & BL Export 98
10/28/2007 TBPR & BL Export 181
1/10/2008 TBPR & BL Export 74
2/26/2008 TBPR & BL Export 47
6/06/2008 TBPR & BL Export 100

Many people have been spreading the rumor that the PR update happened on April 30th. I personally checked the blogs of those claiming that their blog PR was updated, and none had been (most were still at N/A).

“Many of you has already noticed their new PR, and the rest will be noticing it in the next moments or days, so keep checking your Google Toolbar or use any of the Backlinks and Page Rank Checkers. for me and my 3 months site I have noticed my first new PR at the first moments of this day - the first of May (the labor day! and the month that holds my birthdate (May 7th) in its days! what a coincidence lol) - I was so excited for this Update as it’s my first update to know how good did I work and how much do I understand Google PR and the Search Engine Optimization concepts, so what was the result??”

The PR update has not yet happened, but it is coming in the near future. Get your final links in now before the update, the next one won’t be for another 100 days or so.

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