I am grateful for the helpful answers.
Quick replies to two questions.
Thaths wrote:
>> They are beginning to be "corrupted"
> Do you have any specific examples that
> makes you reach this conclusion?
No. And this is why I am *not* dropping Google, though I am beginning to
"break the habit" and to try with other search engines.
Some friends of mine have doubts. But they tend to be over-suspicious
and they haven't come up with any meaningful examples.
(Anyhow that was a hypothesis, not a "conclusion").
There are some rather silly mistakes in "ranking", but there is no
indication that they are mischievous. Probably faults in the software.
But coping with the intricacies of the net isn't easy - and nobody is
perfect.
The problem is that Google is branching out with so many things that (in
spite of their enormous resources) they are having problems making them
work properly. Some are still, after years, in a "beta" stage and don't
produce good results.
In any case I never feel very comfortable with monopolies. Even when -
as in this case - they are (or at least were) well deserved.
Deepak wrote:
> Maybe you have become so used to the quality of the
> results that you have raised the bar in terms
> of the kind of search results that make you happy.
Maybe. But I (we) have every right to do so. And a worldwide quality
leader should raise the bar before its customers do. True leadership
isn't resting on one's laurels. It's being committed to improvement -
or, at least, reduction of glitches.
Cheers
Giancarlo
