Baseball is here and what is Google doing? Instead of placing a spinning baseball on their Google homepage to welcome in the major league baseball season, they play a weird April Fool's joke on their visitors with Project Virgil. Not Virgil, Virgle. Maybe tomorrow they'll have a picture of William Shatner on their homepage saying "April Fools!" lol
This baseball news and discussion forum has been active for over two years now. It has been in the Dmoz directory for nearly 2 years and in the Google Directory for 9 months. There are over 1,000 posts containing baseball articles, baseball news stories, baseball discussions and baseball humor. Yet there are no visitors because the Googlebot isn't recognizing Baseball Etc. What's wrong? Google themselves own blogger.com and host this weblog. Is it like this website is a flea on an elephants back so it doesn't even notice it? Or is it that Google and their Googlebot are just picking and choosing? Not sure. The fact is that this baseball website has as much content as most of those that land high in querie results on Google. Listed in Dmoz and Google directories, but nowhere to be found on the querie results. What's wrong?
The Baseball Etc news and discussion weblog cannot continue to operate if there is no feedback. It's up to these major search engines to be more responsible and include those baseball websites with content in their results. Yahoo has
rejected, again and again inclusion of Baseball Etc in their weblog category, even though it contains more content then any other baseball site in it's directory. Perhaps they are just holding out for the money. Perhaps Google is too. They may be eluding newer websites, content or not, so that they start reaching into their wallets and deposit money into Yahoo or Google's pockets. Money is the root of all evil. And because of that, I'm afraid, it looks as though upstart baseball websites don't stand a chance on the net. They have until April 1 or it's bye bye internet for this sincere baseball writer and fan.
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Google directory updated about a year ago, and since then, I'm afraid the love for money seems to be preventing them from using their strength, the database created carefully and properly by many of the Open Directory Project's volunteers. Now Google seems to be focused on Adwords which prevents updating and indexing of the proper and relevant sites. Therefore, unfortunetly, Baseball Blogs and other websites which were included in Dmoz are left in limbo, awaiting for that promised Google directory update.
Why bring this up here on a baseball site? It's because this is a baseball news topic discussion forum, and no one can find it. It's frustrating to have over 600 pages indexed by Google, on a blog page hosted by Google, but not be searched for in queries regarding baseball in their search engine. Google looks through their directory pages for the immediate results, so anyone looking for say My Page Here, is not going to find it. What they'll find are the sponsored and PAID for results on Google's page, and of course, the usual directory results, the old results.
Also, I noticed that all or most blogs are dishonest and doing just as Google is doing, trying to make a buck. All those popular results you find when you type "Baseball", they all have tons of advertisements on their page. They are there to make money, not to provide quality content for the visitors.
It's a shame that a search engine and company which was successful and reached enormous heights from including only the most relevant search results, in a system built by public volunteers, is now resorting to the money making gimmicks, thus stifling any chance of maintaining such success. People will only find results which are out to make money, instead of the results they used to find which were relevant baseball, or any other pages with real content, as determined by Dmoz. It's a shame. I hope they wakeup and update their directory according to the listings on Dmoz, so that the web surfers can find real honest and relevant content, whether baseball or any other sports website.
Mark C. - (Baseball Etc.)
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