[meteorite-list] Re: Google (on topic)

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Google is definitely out of control.  Last  year I commented to the IMCA that 
it ought to advertise with the search  engine.  At that time I noted that 
Mike Farmer's meteorite hunter  advertised link showed up in most or all Google 
searches using the word  "meteorite."  Shortly afterward, I noticed that John 
Birdsell followed [but  not the IMCA ;-)].

Now Mike doesn't show up at all, and it seems you have  to put Campo in the 
search too to get John - much harder to get his ad with  general terms now.  On 
the other hand, no matter what I seem to type with  the word meteorite, 
eBay.com is showing up once, twice!! or even three times!! (  a lady) in the 
sponsored links, timed with the departure of the private  individuals.  So out with 
the Mom and Pop standards and in with the cold  calculating behemouths.  Well 
now your eBay ads are getting more exposure  thanks to Google's incredible 
power...

So, I find it very appropriate  that Mike seems to have either fired Google 
or been overlooked by them very  recently, and John was the previous number two 
I observed and is being diluted  there.  These two men certainly must 
understand Google data mining as they  have been involved, participated, and paid for 
its benefits.  I suspect  that although they are entitled to be quite 
disgruntled, they are right on the  mark, because privacy is quite a separate issue 
with this stellar mutating now  shareholder driven information Microsoft 
protege!

Saludos, Doug