Google and their plans?

[gkd_uk]

Hi

As you are aware Google have and are continuing to purchase large internet based websites and slowly dominating the Internet.

Do you think this is a good thing or bad thing? Do you think they will continue to become more strict on webmasters?

Thanks

[bochgoch]

At the moment Google pay me relatively well to display their adverts on my sites - so their strength and continued profitability is in my interests.

As a company they seem relatively ethical and commited to the web (as I am).

Their threats to one of my income streams - text link ads is yet to materialise and difficult to see how they'll manage it so no worries there yet.

Generally, the purchasing of innovative and successful sites is bound to happen and (for the reasons above) I'm happy for Google to be the one buying. It would be nice to own one of those (overpriced?) sites, but that's not what I'm about.

All in all -- more power to them!

[gkd_uk]

I have recently started to use text link ads. If google did stamp down on this, do you think they would penalise both the text link ad site and those who are using their service or just the text link ad site?