Is Google killing the internet?

Google's been a golden child for a while. But the Motley Fool folks have some compelling arguments that detail How Google is killing the internet.

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[Steve Hill]

I think that Google page rank has not exactly killed the Internet, but has in fact stifled it. Now the only way a site can really and truly rise in the ranks is to buy links, which in face it good for me right now, but not so long ago I wasn't interested in buying links at all.

Back in 2000, 2001, 2003, was a great time for my and the various companies I worked for, I was able to make them stay in the top ten in Yahoo, MSN, and all the other engines as well, thorough sheer content and optimization.

Now it's a matter of who's linking, and how they rate. Although it seems like a good idea on the offset, if you truly ponder the matter... How does a start-up ever hope to rise in Google's index without spending copious hours and piles of cash? Coding a clean site just isn't good enough anymore.

That's the sad part. Adwords. and Adsense (are part of nearly every blog or website) And maybe somebody out there is getting rich, but lots of other sites are nowhere to be found. Mainly Google's pockets are being lined.

But about search results: the search results are not very good right now. i used to could find genuinely relevant info in the top ten, now I fuind blogs, spam, link farms, and adsense sites. How has this helped the Internet?

Now I am a developer and I run a network of link directories, so this the fact that the Internet is dying is actually helping me. Of course, they're AD FREE! (Because) I am looking for information, not ads. That's not my only projects though. I am a novelist, a software designer, and a Father...

The main point of my post here is the fact that the Internet is on the verge of some type of collapse, either through ad / spam, of The upcoming Goverment taxes. What can we do??? I will watch this thread to find out.

What I propose is that we go back to META TAGS! Simple effective, let's standardize the length of tile, desc, and keywords, use keyword density algorithms and use them to rank sites, and forget about incoming links. It would save a ton of developers time money, and put Google out of business. And it would probably allow more freedom to developers. Those sites that took the time to optimize there pages would rank higher and the sites that didn't would rank lower. Of course there would need to be some type of page analysis for spam content, but so what, list the chance of spam ratio by the indexed link instead of the size of the cache!