Why I won't be using Google in January
medium.comInstead of taking a look into their OWN issues- they knock Rap Genius off the front page.
cough cough did someone say censorship?
What?
RG cheated. RG was punished for cheating. If everyone cheats, the system breaks and that's bad for everyone.
Everyone is free to use whatever search engine they wish to use. Google isn't forcing you to use them.
That being said, Google has pretty clear guidelines about what it will accept and what will result in a penalty. RG knowingly broke google's rules. They got penalized. That simple.
As the old saw goes, rules are meant to be broken. That simple.
Is it okay for a site to use black-hat tactics to rise to the top because they've got the 'best' content?
If they've got the best content, shouldn't it rise to the top organically? Or is the argument that 'everyone else is doing it, so if we don't do it, our organic rank will be jeopardized'?
Are people from RG creating accounts on YC and trying to fight the after math of a tsunami?
I'm not going to stop using Google because they caught someone red handed cheating the system. This is crazy.