Originally Posted by xxxjay (Post 20296697)

That is true but not totally... the reason all of the purchased links haven't hurt them that much is because their domain authority is so high (or with sites like pornhub.com) - the real reason the porn tubes went to the top of the heap is because people go there and view the content for a long time, stay on the site for a long time, and a come back.

I suspect, the switch the mozilla guys did had more to do with privacy then SERPs, because as we all know when it comes Google's core product (search)... they do it better than anyone.

:2 cents:

Originally Posted by Evil Chris (Post 20295823)

Firefox? People still use that? ;)

Originally Posted by EddyTheDog (Post 20295906)

I know Google have a lot of faults, however most of what you mention is necessary because of people playing the system...

A lot of what we do every day without thinking about it is trying to fool Google - If they don't play with algorithms etc we all moan because sites we don't like are too high in the SERPS.....

Originally Posted by ErectMedia (Post 20297079)

I get that just saying with no competition they could change the algorithm to stick your thumb in your ass while you masturbate or get no rankings and everyone will run to stick their thumb in their ass.

Be nice to see a major competitor actually succeed or for all adverisers/users to not spend any $ or do any searches at Google for a month so they can realize that their whole business model relies on our data which they obtain for free. I won't shed a tear if the day ever comes where they and their God like behaivor get knocked off the top.

Originally Posted by oppoten (Post 20297089)

Trouble is that Google is hand in glove with the social sites that it promotes, and everyone loves. It's search results reflect where the web is going.

Bing looks like it's in isolation, pushing a separate web experience. If it could convert separate into alternative, then it might stand a chance.

Originally Posted by ErectMedia (Post 20297090)

I know just saying I'd like to bareback Google right in the ass with no lube. :thumbsup

Originally Posted by Tekkno (Post 20297156)

Should be interesting! Its still pretty easy to rank #1 on bing/yahoo .. bring in the traffic!

Originally Posted by KlenTelaris (Post 20296705)

Yes as they been at top for long time so they accumulated large number of natural backlinks so basically they dont need to buy new backlinks.Only new tube sites need to buy backlinks,tho a lot of them dont give a shit anymore about seo,they just concentrate on promoting embeds and their gallery traffic programs.

Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho (Post 20299097)

Well last time I checked there was hardly a month without being approached and asked for backlinks to the Manwin tube network, deep links related to the site's content.

Originally Posted by Seth Manson (Post 20295811)

Oh boy, google may lose .001% of it's searches. I hope they can recover.