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Is your Web Neighborhood Turning Ugly?

  I came across a great tool on a website called Advertising for Success.  Unfortunately, the website advertising for success has to move because they found themselves in a bad neighborhood.  It would appear that Google participates in a practice known as redlining or blacklisting.  In the real world, these practices are completely illegal, but on the Internet anything goes unfortunately.

Google applies stigmas much more powerful than the common snobbery or prejudice that you might find in real life.  They block people from communicating with each other by excluding them from areas of the internet.  They have been doing this for a long time in China, but now it is starting to spread around the rest of the world including within the United States and they are doing it under the guise of only allowing the display of elite websites.

If you want to determine whether or not your site is being labeled as being present within a bad neighborhood, you might try this Great tool mentioned on Advertising for Success.  In some regards if you find yourself falling by no fault of your own into a bad internet neighborhood, that tool might help you get out kind of like drug treatment centers help celebrities get out of jail.

Just like in Philadelphia in 1936, when a web neighborhood is identified as undesirable, the web property is rapidly devalued.  In these situations it occurs whenever Google says so, or when someone reports the site to Google.  So if you have a competitor that wants to blacklist you, they can report you to Google and you could be deemed to be operating in a bad neighborhood.  With the processing of some automated robot script, your website is arbitrarily reclassified and you my friend are out of business.

Why Google May become as bad as Osama Bin Laden - Evil Grows

I was going to reply on a discussion forum thread about the Google - terrorist Connection.   This was sparked by an article titled, “Is Google the New Terrorist?“  The thread was locked prematurely, and the concept was not fully covered, so I thought I’d open it up some more as I do find it very important to understand where certain actions fall in a sort of continuum of evil. 

There are different levels of good and bad and making a binary statement that Google is exactly like Hitler or Osama Bin Laden would not be correct.  However, categorically stating that Google is not like Hitler or Bin Laden is also not correct.

Google does have detractors that have found that they might be funding terrorism (just Google it and you will see).

Google is trying to influence the Internet industry by fear instead of incentive, stick instead of carrot. 

When a powerful authority influences people by fear, it is intimidation.  When a non-authority influences people by fear, its terrorism.  Influence by fear can be categorized differently depending on who is doing it and what end of the continuum they fall on.

Fear comes in multiple incarnations from the type of fear that Al Qaeda attempts to use to influence the world to the type of fear that the Nazis used to attempt to influence the world to the type of fear that we see in commercials every day by all types of companies that tell us that if we do not act, something bad will happen to us or our children, so buy this product now.

Google is telling webmasters, publishers, and bloggers that something bad will happen to them if they do not do exactly as Google says, so line up to get on board the Google cattle car express and take a ride into their reality and belief system where the Google Algorithm is God.

Now, they could have provided a competitive solution, an incentive.  Google could have chosen to take a direction where they provided webmasters, publishers and bloggers the financial incentive and reward system to go their way, but they chose (financially a cheaper total solution)  they chose to hurt webmasters, publishers and bloggers, they chose to take wealth, and money away from people, they chose to do all this to benefit their own bottom line.  They chose this to benefit their own algorithm belief system.

Just like Osama Bin Laden, Google is telling the world that it is their way or the highway.  They promise people that if they buy into the Google Algorithm Belief System (GABS), that people will be then protected by Google.  Good ol’ God Father Google will benevolently protect its children internet surfers, like a gangster extracting protection money through fear, Google is extracting share holder value through fear.

You can call it terrorism and it would be close to right.

You can call it fanaticism or fundamentalism and it would be close to right.

You can call it internet fascism and it would also be close to right.

But make no mistake about it, what Google is doing is definitely evil. 

They are justifying their actions, their evil, their fear tactics, with the rationalism that they will help the greater good (by harming a minority), whether or not they are rounding people up for slaughter, or killing people with jet airplanes, or taking food away from a poor family in the US or even the Philippines, they are still harming people.  Hitler did not start immediately by sending people to concentration camps, he ramped into it. 

Bin Laden did not start out by killing thousands of people right away, he influenced people, curbed them to his belief system and then kicked off a campaign to achieve his sinister goals.  Google today is harming people by taking away their wealth and their earning potential and they are harming the people that trust Google to provide uncensored information.  Who is to say what they will do tomorrow, when their software is running on everyone’s computer and Gphone and car.

If they can not avoid doing evil today, when they have a large amount of power, what will they do tomorrow when they gain even more power?

The answer, they will do even greater evil and possibly eclipse Osama Bin Laden and Hitler combined.

Investors Expect Google to Reach 100 Percent Search Monopoly

Google has been attacking publishers for the last couple months.  The attacks are coming as a result of an advertising industry that helps web site owners advertise in search engine ranking placements (SERP).

Google has a growing monopoly in search some investors think they may hit a 100% monopoly level soon.  That could send their stock up to $900 per share or better.

The EU is looking into Google’s monopoly in light of their acquisition of DoubleClick, but no one is looking at their anti-trust behavior as they attack other advertising companies for doing the same type of advertising that they do.