Google the leader in search now seem to be focused on the Browser industry, There has been wild speculation on Google's new brower, But many information coming out are all just speculations, There hasnt been any official statement from google regarding this, The following Whois information was found for the domain gbrowser.com , it could be google's future browser site ,
Here is the whois information:
Registrant: Google Inc. (DOM-1278108) 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US
Domain Name: gbrowser.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar Homepage: markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact: DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571
Created on..............: 2004-Apr-26. Expires on..............: 2006-Apr-26. Record last updated on..: 2004-Apr-26 16:46:39.
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NS1.ALLDOMAINS.COM64.124.14.32 NS2.ALLDOMAINS.COM209.25.143.102
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Traffic power as we all know is a company which is involved in search engine optimization, Their marketing tactics has always brought a lot of anger and frustration among companies, Their main targeted customers are innocent website owners and webmasters, Traffic power just calles them by phone and explains them about the nature of the SEO business and they give fancy offers to clients saying they will get very good ranking in major search engines, Many people have fallen for this type of marketing hype,
So everything was going on peaceful for traffic power when suddently fake struck them, Traffic power has been using a bannable technique to raise ranking for their clients, They create keyword rich pages and add a javascript mouse over redirect to that page, So when the users land on the page the main page loads in certain seconds, The users ignore the page they land on and concentrate on the page they are finally redirected,
This technique is not appreciatable by search engines, Google especially is very strict on these type of tactics, They are aggressive towards people who use these tactic and ban them if those SEO companies use it to manipulate their search results,
Traffic power has more than 2000 clients, 2000 clients for traffic power means lots of manipulation of google results, Google immediately woke up to this occasion and penalized many of traffic power's clients, This brought a lot of chaos among many of traffic powers clients and they started asking for money refund, Many many online SEO forums started bashing traffic power and their services, Penalty by google has brought a lot of loss for the Traffic power company, They had massive celebrations for their search engine success but now they must be suffering due to massive loss,
There are law suits filed against traffic power, Even The Best Business Bureau has posted more than 35 complaints sent by traffic power clients, Edward Lewis of SEO consultants has added specific section in his SEO consultants site to bash traffic power, Dont know what his motive behind that section probably he wants more business through traffic powers existing clients, But his service is really valuble and has saved many people for falling for traffic power's fake search engine optimization services,
In My opinion google did the right job by penalizing traffic powers clients, It will definetely teach traffic power company to change their tactic and stop spamming search engines, Google rarely penalize sites for any sort of spam but traffic power has really tested google's patience, SO in my opinion what google did against Traffic power if right,
So what does traffic power say about Online discussion SEO forums,
This is what they say in their FAQ page:
Are online discussion forums the best place to get your information?
No. Forums are not the best place to gain impartial information. Most forums are attached in some way to a marketing or SEO firm. This is not the best resource for getting an impartial view. There are some forums that are ethical and fair and allow all views to be heard. Most of these forums do not allow trashing of competitors or self promotion. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to distinguish the good from the bad.
This is what they say about Edward Lewis of SEO Consultants,
One of the biggest perpetrators of one sided scams is Edward Lewis. Mr. Lewis' SEO company, First Page Results, is a direct competitor of Traffic-Power selling ridiculously high priced search engine optimization and overpriced paid placement. He also secretly administers a one sided Website called SEO Consultants where he has orchestrating an extensive attack against Traffic Power. He is one of the most vocal users of the "one-sided forum" scam and specializes in trashing his direct competitors in forums all over the Internet. The reasons for his hatred of Traffic Power are clear. Traffic Power has been able to accomplish in four years what he was unable to do in eight, and that is dominate the SEO market by outperforming all other SEO companies in price and performance. Our rise has surely impacted the bottom line of our competitors, being that most of these companies are small one man operations and cannot compete with companies of our size and considerable resources. These fear tactics and smear campaigns should be an embarrassment to SEO professionals everywhere, but the truth of the matter is that these practices are widely used for marketing and lead generation by unscrupulous SEO companies. Mr. Lewis says that his SEO Consultants' smear campaign is organized by an anonymous "Consortium", but in the reality it is a desperate witch hunt organized by a threatened, small time, one man basement operation.
I personally dont have any hatred about Traffic power but I always wished search engines are never manipulated by any spammers, Search engines adds a lot of value to online non web savvy users, They are here to provide us an organized information on the net, So I wish all SEO/ Search Engine Optimization companies stick to search engine guide lines and make the search engines a great source of relevant information,
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There is a recent thread in Webmasterworld.com where a guy mentions he is highly frustrated on speculations, People have been speculating on Google sandbox theories, Death of large sites, Large movement in SERPs, OOP( Over Optimization Penalty ) , Banning of affilate sites etc, Some times these activities are kind of frustrating and that is what he mean to say in his post,
This is the post of that Member:
For over a year, I've been reading all kinds of speculations and strange theories. "Google doesn't like this, Google doesn't like that..." and there you go. A vast percentage of threads are started by somebody that had dropped three positions at Google serps and starts a theory out of thin air. There are no proofs (read it: Official from Google) about sandboxing, AWS or affiliate sites, AdWords publishers not ranking high, sites wiped out for over optimization, large sites not being "liked" by Google, and the list goes on. Why are so many webmasters so fond of these theories? Isn't that some kind of "over analysis"? Of course I do some analysis myself, and also I understand that Google changes its algorithm and makes it confusing to follow, but the basic rules haven't changed: Build a good site, get some relevant links and don't behave bad with any search engine. Spend more time looking for all the traffic oportunities that you have in the web. A good link from a good web site is a mine of gold. And it is not that difficult. I'm not telling you to forget about Page Rank, or exchanging links or deep analyzing. That's good. But if things change, don't start blaming on Google and do first some research around. Your competition is working as hard as you do. You are not alone. How can you start a project believing that Google doesn't like big sites? Tell that to the Encyclopedia Brittanica... Or Microsoft, or Slashdot, or Sitepoint, or Adobe, or About.com, or... It is not my intention to be flamed, but stop and think about this for a minute.
It is an interesting read, To visit the forum discussion copy and paste this URL:
webmasterworld.com/forum3/25618.htm
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