How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows

orangerobot writes "The latest issue of Fast Company has an article about how Google has managed to survive beyond its peers and develop a culture of openness and innovation. The article also mentions Google memes and spin-offs such as: Googlewhack, Googlebombing, Googleshare, Googlism and Google Smackdown."

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All Search Engines are doomed to fail...

[Saint Stephen]

And Google will fail too. A few months back I noticed my "Web" searches were taking me less and less to the "right" page and more and more often to some clearinghouse page that some sponsored link wanted me to go to. That's stopped a bit for now, but if google IPO's, it will become rampant then people will abandon google.

Face it, nothing on the internet is ever going to make a whole pile of money. The more popular you get the greater the likelihood of impending failure.

didn't mention google's legal goons, though

[slashrot]

Funny that the article didn't mention the fact that Google's lawyers recently asked Paul McFedries to remove the word 'google' from his excellent wordspy lexicon. A company that 'gets it' indeed.

WHY DID GOOGLE BLACKLIST MY SITE????

[cryofan2]

I didn't spam anyone; my site (2 simple and separate URLs covering the same area) is not porn or warez, or even a commercial site. It is a political site. You can see one of my pages at http://www.geocities.com/cryofan/.

After just one week I managed to get my site ranked on the first page of google using the search string "navy nuclear power program" by posting 2 times to relevent newsgroup, and posting 2 messages on message boards of relevant websites, and by linking the 2 pages together.
I used no meta tags or search engines optimization techniques or other tricks. These are/were simple handmade HTML pages.

However, not too long after that first week, when my main page came up on google first page of search returns, both my websites DISAPPEARED from google completely. Why?

Maybe because my websites speak out against the crappy workplace provided by the US Navy on nuclear submarines. Looks like google likes kissing the ass of the US Govt. That is what it looks like to me!