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Re: Google Reputation Management Disaster With Open Social

Brand Yourself — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:46:07 -0000

Hi Andy,

18 months later, and the "Google Wariness" continues. To be fair though, as they evolve further into the corporate behemoth, it's difficult for them to maintain their "do no evil" mantra, despite their best efforts.

Besides their attempt to clamp down on Google-branded domains (which they are still failing at), they have also recently cut out the free PPC budgets to charities, thus sinking further to the dark side...

Re: Google Reputation Management Disaster With Open Social

Brand Yourself — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:46:07 -0000

Hi Andy,

Re: Google Reputation Management Disaster With Open Social

igorthetroll — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:52:04 -0000

Andy, looks like with the help of a few friends, Google finally waking up.
http://sphinn.com/story/13673

Igor The Troll

Re: Google Reputation Management Disaster With Open Social

igorthetroll — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:52:04 -0000

Andy, looks like with the help of a few friends, Google finally waking up.
http://sphinn.com/story/13673

Igor The Troll

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igorthetroll — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:57:52 -0000

Go for it, you deserve it, for all your hard work to uphold GQG! I figure the little g is more powerful than the big G.

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igorthetroll — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:57:52 -0000

Go for it, you deserve it, for all your hard work to uphold GQG! I figure the little g is more powerful than the big G.

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AndyBeard — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:46:07 -0000

Igor I should stick that next to a PayPerPost logo ;)

As far as the quality guidelines go, I am convinced I comply to both the letter and the spirit.

I don't even plan to charge more now I have sitelinks ;)

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AndyBeard — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:46:07 -0000

Igor I should stick that next to a PayPerPost logo ;)

As far as the quality guidelines go, I am convinced I comply to both the letter and the spirit.

I don't even plan to charge more now I have sitelinks ;)

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igorthetroll — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:36:18 -0000

Andy, I wonder how Google will feel about this.
www.googlepatrol.org

Re: Google Reputation Management Disaster With Open Social

igorthetroll — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:36:18 -0000

Andy, I wonder how Google will feel about this.
www.googlepatrol.org

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Michael Woo — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:45:03 -0000

This is definitely great material :) I sphunn u :D I wonder how will they perform.. but then again, when you got the money, it's most likely successful.. it's just the matter of how much you wanna pump in?

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Michael Woo — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:45:03 -0000

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Amish Furniture — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:42:15 -0000

Andy, I love your posts and comment regularly on them. This is one of the best that I have read. I can not but feel that this is getting to be a David vs Goliath situation. Having been a corporate man all my life, I still do not understand how Google is still not getting into damage control mode. There are too many bloggers complaining and G does not seem to care. Does not augur well for their future. Yes, it is immaterial what their stock quotes at. We have seen a lot of companies who had that and lost it.

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Amish Furniture — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:42:15 -0000

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George — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:29:31 -0000

Excellent post. I would love to hear what Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington think about this.

Maybe they are too busy talking with their lawyers to comment ;)

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George — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:29:31 -0000

Excellent post. I would love to hear what Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington think about this.

Maybe they are too busy talking with their lawyers to comment ;)

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CrankyDave — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:21:04 -0000

Google Open Social? Please.

How about starting with a little "social responsibility" first.

Professional athletes may not want to be role models... too bad, they are. They don't have to like it. Doesn't matter. Because of the influence they wield, they have a social responsibility to behave as such.

How about you Google? With the flick of a switch, the turn of a dial, you have a direct influence on millions of people, many times on a very personal level.

How about recognizing the responsibity you have for the influence you wield and behave accordingly? How about acknowledging the possibility that it may have been you that made a mistake.

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CrankyDave — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:21:04 -0000

Google Open Social? Please.

How about starting with a little "social responsibility" first.

How about you Google? With the flick of a switch, the turn of a dial, you have a direct influence on millions of people, many times on a very personal level.

How about recognizing the responsibity you have for the influence you wield and behave accordingly? How about acknowledging the possibility that it may have been you that made a mistake.

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Cruise Control — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:15:47 -0000

First let me say you have an excellent blog!!! You are stating a welcome truth.

As for the Google Empire, I have always felt that they had too much say and control with what is allowed or indexed on the web.

Per other comments, they almost remind me of businesses wanting to sell their inventory at Walmart, they have to meet all the price settings as dictated by Walmart, or no sell to Walmart, I remember watching a CNBC show on Walmart, rings almost of Google.

When will Google take over Walmart?

As for the powers that be at Google, what Lord Acton stated

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely

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Cruise Control — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:15:47 -0000

First let me say you have an excellent blog!!! You are stating a welcome truth.

As for the Google Empire, I have always felt that they had too much say and control with what is allowed or indexed on the web.

When will Google take over Walmart?

As for the powers that be at Google, what Lord Acton stated

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely

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Blog Opinion — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:18:50 -0000

Google just collecting information in each and every way. They care about your privacy, they collect each every infomation using Gmail, Reader, Google talk, these all service are spyware to collect maximum information. They are using there Pagerank in a wrong way. Don't see your Google pagerank now!.

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Blog Opinion — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:18:50 -0000

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les — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:00:11 -0000

Hi
I really enjoy reading your posts(and have subscribed).

I have one question. Is google trying to become the Microsoft of the internet and dictating how we all use. I get the feeling they trying to force all web page owners to do it all 'their or else'. I am new to blogging and at present don't really care about google's ranking of pages. To me Alexis is a real indication as to how my pages are performing. Is Alexis relevant now?

cheers les

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les — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:00:11 -0000

Hi
I really enjoy reading your posts(and have subscribed).

cheers les

Your site has been reviewed by the radical blogger = you can see the results here:

http://myradicalblogs.com/?...

It may take several hours for the front page article to appear. You review however has been published.

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WebsiteAnalystinDC — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:34:35 -0000

I'm delighted to have found this blog. You right on to call out Google on this usurping of Open Social name. I hate to say it but I have grown very weary of Google's business practices as of late. I hope these are just mistakes of a young company that's having trouble dealing with their enormous success, but every day I these "mistakes" seem more premeditated and disregarding... surely someone attorney at Google would have spoken up that they just can't take someone else's name... right? Or what, or perhaps some attorney did speak up, only to say "yeah, let's just take it, we're Google, we can do whatever we want".

Careful Google, you can't keep this up forever.