Well apparently on April 25th 2012 the big G rolled out an algorithm update (deemed the Penguin Update) which was supposed to rid the Google index of spammy/irrelevant sites and punish so called sites that participate in link schemes and or were being linked from poor, irrelevant spammy (per Google’s POV) sites; well let’s just say that the magnitude at which this update has failed to achieve this goal is embarrassing to say the least, if anything it seems to have achieved exactly the opposite affect! What were once (prior to this update) decent results, have been replaced with completely poor, irrelevant and at times empty pages! I considered Google to be a decent search engine, but over the last few years have noticed a dramatic decrease in the quality and relevance of search results, it could be quite possibly and most likely in my view a purposeful attempt by Google to give us the enduser such poor results so that we are left with no other choice but to click the Google sponsored results as they obviously are a whole lot more relevant than the organic results that’s for sure, but I have made the conscious switch to using the alternate Bing wich quite surprisingly has some really good relevant search results.

Google it seems especially with this latest algo update has hit the disconnect switch with even the outmost loyal of its users, webmasters, content writers, SEO professionals and all those who actually played it fair by Google’s rule book. I think now it is a good time for most people to start voting with their mouse clicks and start using alternative search options/engines.

I’ve myself made the switch to Bing as my default search engine on my browser, with Yahoo as my second search option and Ask and Duck Duck Go as my third and forth choice.

P.S. One would assume that with some of the “brightest minds” (cough, cough) working for Google they would’ve come up with a better update than this. Matt Cutts, the head engineer of Google’s Webspam team should really take a hard good look at this latest fiasco of an update and do some serious damage control before they start losing the hearts and minds of even their outmost loyal users.

*** Ohh and Google this -> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=best+search+engine

*** UPDATE ***
There’s also an online petition against this update you can sign here:
http://www.change.org/petitions/google-please-kill-your-penguin-update-l

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