Why All the Google Hate?

I’ve been reading multiple posts over the past few days about how Google messed up everybody’s page rank. Somehow this is leading to people not wanting to use Google products. I don’t know how having your page rank lowered can lead to not using Google search, reader, gmail, etc. I’m sorry that people lost page rank due to this, but maybe it is your fault for putting too much focus on it.

Now, I know I’d probably be just as mad if it had happened to me, but I had no page rank to lose since this is a relatively new blog. I think that companies like Text Link Ads need to measure a blogs success on something other than page rank, or at least don’t solely rely on Google page rank. Also, blogs shouldn’t focus so much on what Google thinks about them. I think people gave too much control to Google, and now Google knows they can control them.

I don’t think that switching search engines or email providers is going to solve anything. Google didn’t mess up those services. I just think it is time that people started using other ways of measuring a blogs success other than Google page rank. I like the Google products like reader and gmail, so I’m not going to switch just because of page rank issues. I think more of the issue is due to companies and blogs relying too much on Google page rank, and not so much of what Google did to mess up their page rank.