A Daniel Brandt complains about Google's Page Rank.
A complaint that the search engine's users don't get good results is valid. A complaint that a webmaster can't get his pages to rank highly for certain generic search terms is not valid. We have to take the search user's point of view, not the webmaster's.
We all know what search was like before Google: page after page of totally useless results. So even a complaint from the search user's viewpoint must take into consideration what is possible. Google is a remarkable improvement over the first generation of search engines.
Here's another interesting question to ponder: How did Google itself become a popular site? No, they didn't rely on search engines.
Posted by Doug Sauder at February 15, 2003 08:44 PM