Article Number 27 - Google's 2007 Third Quarter PageRank Update is a Farce

As many of you have probably seen, Google's latest Page Rank (PR) update may have not been what you expected.  As a matter of fact, it may have come as quite a disappointment to you as it did me.

Google is attempting to crack down on the buying and selling of links for the intention of improving ones PR, ok, so what of the people that are purchasing links for the sole purpose of advertising their site?  Why should these people be penalized.  Google's take on this: Add rel="nofollow" to links of this nature.  That's bull, I shouldn't have to add extra code to my site so that "Big Brother" doesn't get the wrong idea.

Many of the sites hit by this are web directories, which Google seems to have targetted especially.  The directory that Google chooses to use on the other hand is DMOZ, the largest group of corrupt people I have ever seen.  Want to get listed in DMOZ / Google Directory?  Pay off an editor, that's your only shot these days.  Does Google crack down on THOSE paid links or even seem to care that DMOZ is pretty much a toilet these days?  No.

Long story short, Google, get your crap together, people have been buying and selling links for the purpose of advertising for many years and it's not your business to try to police it, how much did Wikipedia pay you to be listed 1st or 2nd on almost every search you type in?