Google News, Inside.

Reading a notable article Danny Sullivan, I had to make a point to share it.

Last week, I was part of a meeting at Google along with a number of notable SEOs, being asked about ways Google could be better. This group wasn’t pushing for Google to make it easier for them to spam the listings. A chief concern they had was how Google (along with other major search engines) continues to have difficulties identifying original source documents. You know — you publish your blog post, then some other site with more authority than you picks it up, and then that site gets the top ranking. SEOs are leading the charge to help site owners get a fix for this overall. But all people like Jason and Robert want to do is characterize them as evil comment spammers for their own personal gain.

Danny is a very respected member of the SEO industry and I value any kind of insight he has to offer. Google also values his insight and opinion. Why? Google cares. Google isn’t out to “get” anyone, but to make the web a better place.

Seems that just about once a month, we head back to the same place.

“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

With any acquisition, with any action, with any thought even, Google needs to remember their mission statement and why they exist in the first place.

Being a recent graduate of college, we learned a lot about the vision and the mission statements. But learning and doing are completely different things. I’m glad that I’m finally in the real world of business and instead of just learning about all these things, I can actually practice them and critique them.

You may or may not actually know what this site is about, but it’s really my personal place to output my thoughts on how Google works. To be able to critique, both the good and the bad, about what Google does and why it does it. This has never been and will never be an official Google blog, but it’s purely from an outsider’s opinion and thought process.