Blogcritics Comments on Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"

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Comment by Eric Berlin on Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:24:52 EDT

Unfortunately, I think many publishers are dependent on Google whether they like it or not. I think what you're talking about is a post-Google world, which doesn't look like it will be happening anytime soon. But who knows, things change quickly!

Comment by Michael Karesh on Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:32:43 EDT

With my own site I've done very little to court Google traffic, because I don't want to be dependent on it. I've got to think that in the long-term there will be a search engine that works without the entire universe having to continuously adapt to it.

Comment by Eric Berlin on Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:59:15 EDT

Thanks kaye, but I think you meant to post this comment to the other Google (and YouTube) story I wrote today (smiles). Even a reltively small percentage of illegal uploading and page views could result in a massive lawsuit, and in fact now has. I'm doubtful that Viacom would flood youtube with its own content for some nefarious purpose, but I've no doubt that they're looking for an advantageous deal to expand their digital offerings.

Comment by kaye on Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:16:56 EDT

#1 kids are not interested in Viacom produced garbage -they prefer novelty and originality - clearly not Viacoms strengths #2 YouTube viewers are not going to upload a 30 second snippet commercial and SO WE MUST ASK WHO IS ACTUALLY UPLOADING VIACOM CRAP ONTO YOUTUBE IN THE FIRST PLACE- COULD IT BE VIACOM ITSELF? #3 who is actually loading these Viacom owned snippets onto YouTube in the first place - Viacom iself? #4 since I don't believe Viacom garbage really interests kids in the first place, what % of overall hits are going to this Viacom owned garbage? I suspect it is actually a very small %.

Comment by Eric Berlin on Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:56:46 EDT

Do you think that the Topix CEO would really tempt the (Google) Gods by throwing around terms like "Kafkaesque" in the media? I would think that would be the last PR things that you'd want to do! But you're right -- it does seem as though changing the URL shouldn't be such a huge deal from the search side. Could the fact that it's a change from a .net to a .com be the cause of the fuss?

Comment by Phillip Winn on Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:46:47 EDT

I'm actually really confused. A simple 301 redirect should ensure that all Google-juice transfers to the new domain. Any reports I've seen from people complaining that weird things happened seemed to be from people who didn't understand HTTP redirects, or had something else wrong. I feel the severe pain of Google's apparent arbitrariness, believe me, but it does kind of seem like Topix *might* just be using this for free PR. Why didn't I think of that? ;-)