Google sucks. It just sucks!
I own a web property, a little wiki called Gold’s Gym Sucks, which I am slowly fleshing out with information about the business practices of that company. I hope for it eventually to become a repository of information about them and a warning to other consumers. To succeed, I need to rank well in search engines for the general terms “gold’s gym sucks” and eventually just “gold’s gym” or “gym” or “gold’s.” And, in Yahoo and MSN, I’ve succeeded. Google is another story.
Let’s take a look at MSN’s SERPS (Search Engine Result PageS):
1) Gold’s Gym Sucks Wiki
2) Elliott Back dot COM
3 - 7 ) Random pages
Now, Yahoo does just about the same thing:
1) Gold’s Gym Sucks Wiki
2-8) Random pages
9) Gold’s Gym Sucks Wiki Location Page
Now, take a look at Google, which just sucks:
1-3) Random pages
4) My blogtopsites listing
5-10) Random pages
11) My homepage
The actual link to the wiki is buried somewhere way far down in the results. Why does Google penalize me? I’m the best ranking for that term, and yet, because I’m a new site, or few people link to me, they don’t like me.
Update: Google doesn’t actually suck, so this page which ranks (at the moment) number one for the term is a hopeless misnomer. It was written at a time when I was having trouble getting a term to rank because the website on it was so new, and untrusted by Google. Ah well.
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on June 2nd, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Hey,
You have to understand that google ranking algorithym is one of the most complex if it is not THE most complex. But, it is not complex for nothing, it is complex to deliver the best results to his users. One of the important criteria of the google ranking it is the age of the site. If your site is new, it may take a lot of time for your site to get to the top of google. But even if you haven’t been able to rank well for the terms Gold’s Gym Sucks, I want to congratulate you for being #1 result for the search of Google Suck.
Congratulations,
G-Force.
on June 5th, 2007 at 11:11 am
i kind of like google and y does it suck ?
on June 9th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
No you suck.
on June 9th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Not google.
on June 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
lolollololoolololololololol
I am not a cowboy. YOU slow down.
on June 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
You want to know why google sucks? Than here it is!
www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
on June 29th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
I totally agree that Google Sucks! My site, www.gostate.org, is the only site in the world dedicated to “California State University San Jose” and ranks No. 2 on both Yahoo & MSN for that term, but I’m buried on page 3 on sucky old Google.
Hey Google, you suck! You’re Sandbox algo is broken. Go to heck!
on July 12th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Google sucks because they censor the videos on Google Video. Alex Jones’ Martial Law 9/11 is constantly “unavailable” and they’ve reset the statistics foir that documentary and his other film, Terror Storm,” several times. Aparently they’ve censored videos from Iraq as well.
Then there are the censored areas of satellite images…
on July 21st, 2007 at 8:37 am
GOOGLE DOES SUCK
on July 28th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
The Google paradigm is at least frustrating. One of my sites is just over a year old, PR5, No. one for the key terms on MSN, Yahoo, and the smaller ones, but it has been number one on Google, first page, first return five or six times in the last six months…stays there for 5-7 days and then disappears for nearly a month. So, I “googled” “google sucks” and got this site.
on July 30th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
your all *** google pwns.
on August 3rd, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Hey do you know what else sucks? Horses.
on August 7th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Google sucks because they do not let the public know that they are not neutral in their searches; instead you bid, like at an auction for the best results (ranking) for your site. So it’s all about the money. As an attorney who has a large family and a small practice, it is very hard to compete with larger firms willing to pay more for a better rank or for that matter various companies. Yahoo, netscape, alltheweb, and various other search engines rank me in the way that I should be ranked for the searches for my law office, but Google–they punish me; they especially punished me when I cancelled my ad. Google ad sense was the only search engine I had an ad on and the only search engine that marginalized my business. They truly and absolutely suck.
on August 24th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
OMG google is teh suck they ate my dog bad bad google i ehard they r communists and capitalists and facists and have big ears BUR
on August 25th, 2007 at 9:07 am
omfg google does suck
on August 28th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
google going to be a poo-gle …. all full of ****..
on August 28th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Well… people if google sucks, just stop using it. You cant change anything so go back using your yahoo or whatever to search your craps and stop talking about how google sucks. They earn more money and respect more than you will in your lifetime.
on August 30th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Google sucks azz and that is no doubt!!!!!! I can’t find **** on this search engine…matter of fact I can’t find shiiiiitttteee on any of them. Google should stop taking bribes and start doing what the people want!!!! RESULTS THAT MATTER!!!!!!!!!
on September 2nd, 2007 at 7:36 pm
@nifelazawe _ you little sick **********. if you like google that much. HOW did you get to this site??? And it is not about using google. Google is like a junkie, whos drug is information. So if i am looking for information - google has it. It is more about how google is acting and present the info. They killing other engines, so i can’t find information anymore whitout using this monster.
on September 5th, 2007 at 9:39 am
I dont see how it sucks, its just attracted by the profits, and you do too, from the ads on your sites.
on September 8th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
o google is fine, i use it always. the problem is that they getting more comercial and sells our data. (wich is not proofed). and it getting more and more to an institution, without any qualification. for exampel is firefox using google for check hov seriosly a website is. WHY is google telling me what is good without beeing transparently them self.
sorry for my miserable english.
on September 11th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
GOOGLE SUCKS and so do all who say it doesn’t.
on September 15th, 2007 at 3:01 am
One of the weights used in Google’s engine that is often over-looked is the method in which you construct your web-page. It prefers that you use the heading tags (H1, H2, et cetera) amongst a few other things. These things are often over-looked in modern web-design.
on September 25th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
yes google sucks big time, they charge website owners so their results would be on top, and results are measured by how many people access website even if it has nothing to do with what you are looking for, and also gives retarded results that have nothing to do with what you are looking for, it’s cheap the way it displays results according to the country’s location where you do the search from, there was a time it was very good, but now it just sucks big time.
It’s an american company, just cares about money and not quality.
on September 27th, 2007 at 11:19 am
your mom sucks
on September 27th, 2007 at 11:20 am
your moms saint suck
on September 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I searched Google.com and found this page…
on October 1st, 2007 at 4:14 pm
i typed in google sucks and this is the first website that appears. =]
i like google though. its VERY helpful.
on October 1st, 2007 at 4:15 pm
alsoo…… basically you should be thankful becuase people are finding this site on google. GO GOOGLE!!! and serioussly why did you make a site about this?
on October 5th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
I first started using google, because what ever i typed in the search box, it delivered what i wanted to see, through the years they have added all the adds, and i understand that. however for about the last year, i have entered terms to search for, and all i get is places to buy ****. i use a search engine to search for infomation, not to buy ****. when i want to buy something, there are much better sites to look at. that is why I agree GOOGLE NOW SUCKS!!!!
on October 11th, 2007 at 6:43 am
Hey Guys/Gals,
Remember that google gets paid for their ranking system, not to say that the non payers probably fall into the fair ranking system.
This is called “Business”.. Maybe Google 2 or ThatsWhatUExpect will not take advertisement payment and provide desired user results from searches. I’m sure a few smart people can come up with some categories that follow peoples desires (i.e. user search policies). We just might just have to subscribe (pay) to this service, but at least then we would be able to to credibly down play searches. So, don’t bust the technology, bust on Google Greed. If someone is offended by this. (Googles) Open up the non advertisement searches for cool people.
Anonymous (I hope)
on October 12th, 2007 at 8:24 am
The “Do No Evil” Corporation Falls Short in Suppressing Anti-Google Websites; GoogleSux.com Goes Online
Over the years, Google Inc. has meticulously acquired Internet domain names such as GoogleSucks.com, GoogleSucks.net and even GoogleSucks.org - thus pre-empting their use by critics. But apparently, the public relations people at Google have overlooked a popular misspelling of the word ’sucks’. Recently, a new anti-Google website went online at GoogleSux.com
GoogleSux.com lists several major grievances against Google such as their near-monopoly domination of Internet search market, cooperation with China on Internet censorship, privacy concerns and last but not least - their arrogance. It also features a free speech comments area, where any visitor can share his or her opinion on whether Google sucks and why.
The site even has its own t-shirt store with t-shirts and hats criticizing Google. The one-word designs feature words such as “Greedle” and “Big Brother” written in rainbowish colors.
When asked about GoogleSux.com’s mission, the site’s spokesman Matt Doggs said: “Google is one big PR stunt and has been from the start. They managed to convince the world that they’re a cute harmless puppy on a mission to save the world. But in reality Google does do evil and a lot of it. The purpose of GoogleSux.com is to expose it!”
on October 13th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
YOU SUCK
on October 17th, 2007 at 11:40 am
LMAO search google sucks and this shows up. This is how i found this. LOL
on October 20th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
“LMAO search google sucks and this shows up. This is how i found this. LOL”
Ditto…I am actually doing research on Google right now stemming from some very interesting findings I have gathered!
Does Google make a penalty personal? Yes they do. If you cross the line of webmaster guidelines they can make it personal…e.g. ban every domain that they know of (WHOIS lookup) under your name!
I have always been a supporter of business has no emotion but when Google makes it personal, I take exception to that. They are the greatest automated information source on the planet! Can they be trusted?
There is only one collective body that has more power than them…us (the people). I am making a series of videos about the hidden agendas of Google. They will be free to the people. I am not interested in selling them. Some of this stuff is SOOOO juicey.Subjects like Click Fraud (over 40%), hidden suplimental results, Matt’s rat patrol (Paid links), hidden PR, out and out lies to webmasters, what is LSI and why Adsense has become a complete waste of time, just to mention a few
.
Do I use Google for information? Yep, they a e the best!
Do I trust em? No freaken way
on November 11th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Gor almost a hole year on google I have been searching and searching just to see how I can get videos on my PSP. Now for almost a hole year I have found NOTHING!!!!! I am not really one for yahoo and I do sometimes use MSN but the only REAL reason I even damb well BOTHER with google is because I put my site on it!!! Also I am sick and tired of damb well PORN being on google images it just pisses me off! Also when I try and do every mother ****in thing to get my site off of google IT DOE’SNT WORK! And sure it may be one of the best freakin web searches on the planet but it just SUCKS beyond all reason. For any Parents who are reading this … DO NOT , REPEAT , DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN USE GOOGLE cause they have some sick **** on there server.
To close this I say the last thing that comes to mind.
To anyone who is reading this I say I am Cledus Cassidity and I am Damb well Pissed off!
on November 12th, 2007 at 7:13 am
I have tried many search engines in trying to find a stock symbol for a reorganized energy corp. When I tried google sucks because of no links showing up for what I was searching for; this pops up.
I also tried researching the Corps Web(s) and still no stock ticker or symbol. You would think they want people to buy their stock. Anyway, another reason goggle sucks and does not deserve to be in capital letters. google just SUCKS….
on November 18th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Google DOES suck!!!!!!!!!!!it never goves you the right information! Yahoo is MUCH better
on November 24th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
The reason Google sucks is because enough people concentrate on SEO for their pages that if you have a good SEO team you WILL rank well on Google. Their organic listings are becoming less organic by the day.
on December 1st, 2007 at 7:11 pm
I think that if you people think google sucks so bad and they are such an evil corporate monster and monopoly and blah blah frickin’ blah, then you should quit crying and go research, develop, and procure the capital to build your own search engine and put google out of business. I mean you’re all smart enough to complain about a free service that is there to help with the gathering of information. So obviously you have the brains to do it better than them,right? Mr. Casidy if you don’t want to view porn then turn the “damb” filter on, That’s what it’s there for. People who sit around and ***** and complain about something as trivial as how google makes their money, are just losers looking for something or someone to unload their misery and malcontent upon because they’re total failures and they can’t bare the thought of actually standing up, on their own two feet, and taking responsibility for their own abismal failure of a life. Cryin’ about google…. That’s like bitching about what’s on the tv! Change the channel or shut the stupid thing off and go do something with your life. You people are like those blithering idiots that picket wal-mart because they sell for less. Because they took the time and effort to work out a superior business model, suddenly they are the bad guys, they are the evil conglomerate. People in this country are so frickin’ spoiled it is unbe-freakin-lievable. We got the best life going on this planet and it’s just not good enough. People just are not going to be satisfied until everything is in ruins are they? What are you gonna ***** about when it all falls down on top of us? Because it WILL fall down on top of us. We are the new Rome, people, make no mistake about that. What are you gonna complain about when the real hardships hit this country, and your families. I bet everything I got it ain’t gonna be google.
on December 7th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
heinzkitzvelvet sucks more than google.
on December 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
WOW! When you tell someone the truth that they don’t want to hear, it really hits home, doesn’t it? If the truth sucks then keep lying to yourself so that you may feel comfortable in your “Superior Ignorance.” It makes no difference to me.
on December 23rd, 2007 at 11:59 pm
saying google sucks and then displaying their ads on your site, DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!!!! either you like it or you hate it, IT CAN’T BE BOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.S Google does suck!!!!!!!
P.S.S heinzkitzvelvet also sucks!!!
on January 15th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Google sucks big time. Try finding intellegent information and you are out of luck. Google panders and pimps to the highest bidder. That is fine for commercial interest, but I for one am sick and tired of lame response sites, pandering sites and just plain useless sites.
Google, you may have the edge now, but if you don’t grow up and clean up, you will go the way of ATT, The Big Bells, and all the other monopolies. You can only fool all of the people so long, and then the natives get restless.
The sites that you present first are either stated sponsored sites or overt attempts to pretend to be impartial. You are a useless sourse of information.
Pandering, pimping; that’s what you do best. I would love to have the opportunity to use Northernlights again as my search enging. Google, you suck big time.
May you be blessed with all the government control of monoplies, ripoff companies, and young ignorant useless providers of information. Using the old fashioned paper encyclopedia is faster, more efficient and factual than using pandering pimping google.
on January 24th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I just searched on Google, it gave me ****, I searched again with more settings and keywords but it gave me **** too.
I typed into the Firefox Searchbar -> “google”… it showed me their own site,
ityped Google sux and i found that
on February 8th, 2008 at 12:47 am
It seems Google will implode in on itself. WIth 50-75% of websites not visible on Google in the long run they will have to submit to become a search engine based on content or be part of history. Why on earth would you search on Google if you cannot find what you are looking for? If they cannot meet that need people will figure it out and will move on never to look back. They are having a lot of luck with the newby, but over time people figure these things out. Google has also left the back door wide open for a competitor to eat them alive. I think Microsoft may be going for it.
on February 9th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Google DOES suck, mucho grande! They screwed me on the adsense scam. They made it so I cannot edit my Blogger account. They bought and ruined Youtube. They are control freaks that abuse their clients and members. They’re criminal.
Screw Google and Youtube!
on February 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I typed google sucks into google to see what would happen and this came first. Happy now?
on February 14th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
GOOGLE CAN SUCK MY BIG ROSIE ****.
I have had www.tsabc.com up for over 8 years. I am not a big programer but i can build a website. I am a poor simple little dirt farmer. Myself an some other organic farmers started the tri state area bio-ag coalition tsabc to promote nutrition and sustainable agriculture. Not meaning to plug my site just set the picture for you.
After receiving a bunch of nasty remarks from neighbors and friends (and i didn’t understand what it was about) people were accusing me of operating a credit card scam and phishing and identity theft.website. Then a friend showed me on their computer the WARNINGS of PHISHING SITE ….. BUNCH OF BUNK!. I tried to contact MSN about it Finally found the reply to the notice and all the time to post a reply to MSN. the Notice kept popping up all over my site. after notifying MSN again about the PHISHING WARNINGS were causing me and my business much distress and total shutdown from customer use and support and filing a claim with Microsoft, MR CARLOS de LAWER replied from Microsoft to officially notify me my claim for Losses caused by the UNJUST - UNLAWFUL WARNINGS from MICRO SOFT PHISHING SOFTWARE FILTERS. and my claim was flat denied. I replied informing MIrcrosoft that i will be filing charges with the state attorney generals office and filing suit in local court. THE NEXT DAY — SUCK *** GOOGLE pulled my site totally from their index. NOT A WARNING
on February 18th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
because of simple minded people like you - Stuck in little boxes!!!!!!
Get out of the box. BoyCott Google, and Unfortunately MicroSoft
on February 29th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
for real goog is da boxes
i has boxes of google for u sven
i has boycoot too
on March 3rd, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I dont have a web site or upload videos but i have come to hate google for not having any customer service. how much damn profits they need anyways!!! i complain sometimes and i want a response or the problem fixed, i hate being ignored. !!!!!Google sucks!!!!!
on March 7th, 2008 at 11:19 am
You all suck. I get the ImpressIon that you all just want to get a top rated search tag lIne to create more traffIc for your own sIte regardless for what the user Is searchIng for. ThIs is one of the many reasons the net Is not that much of a trusted resource for research. The search results should provIde InformatIon about the query, not about those who are postIng the answer, or whatever Item It Is to make It seem that It Is the answer. It Is almost fraudulant behavIor what you are doIng. tryIng to work around a scrIpt. You are all a bunch of whIners. and yes I capItIlIzed all my I’s, what are U goIng to do about IT!?
on March 19th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I suspect that Google is actually manipulating traffic for its own ends or, at least, the ends of its higher-paying customers. I dislike their policies abroad as well. Thank you for putting up this website.
on March 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
i once found an article saying how to ‘cheat’ the google algorithm. they said something about making 100’s of pages that link to each other, and then to your page. each link to a page increases its ‘google rank’ which allows its links to concur more ‘google rank’ for the linked page. im not sure if it has to be clicked or not. but if you find the page, im sure it will help
on March 25th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
oh yeah, you need to start a page for ‘MSN sucks’ and ‘yahoo sucks’. while this page is number one result for ‘google sucks’ in the google search engine, it is not on the first page of results for both MSN and yahoo.
on April 28th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Google wants to suck u off thats why dude be careful.
on May 9th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I am seeking people with Google Horror Stories to post on my site www.googlehorrorstories.net. The purpose of my site is to build a repository of first hand experiences that will travel the Net to eventually put pressure on the big G to resolve some of thier most basic problems. The more people who get involved and the more people who syndicate the articles the better chance we have of making a difference. Please feel free to post your article today!
on May 20th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I search with google gold`s gym suck, and the first page is your homepage… i think you kind of gelous dude… and yes, you suck
on July 28th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
googles algorithm is ****. if they were as good as they think they are they would be able to detect virus’s, and malware in pages and not index them. Ranking, by counting links that point to a web site is crazy. The most popular site is not necessarily the the best site, or contain sound information. Some of the most creative people in the world will never be listed in googles database, simply because no one has linked to them. I, personally, would have thought that in the 21st century, with computers in almost every home, we would not be searching. We would be looking up things and FINDING answers that were reputable. Instead we have a mass confusion of misinformation and another self indulgent money machine, that has its main focus on who we are and what are we doing…
I use OpenDNS and, google and everything they own, are blocked. My website disallows the google spider, since they are not going to index me, they do not need to steal my content. I am only one person in billions, but I sleep well, knowing I do not feed the monster.