Here is a little pestering idea you might want to be pestered by. I started this blog to pass on pestering ideas, so there you go, little idea, move along.
When Google first got exciting, it was because it was more accurate than anything else out there. It was more accurate because it relied on the web of meaningful links people had put in place, for their own individual and group purposes, by hand, without using Google.
I don’t remember the details, and probably you don’t either, but somehow Google made use of the fact that on a web site about turtles there were links to other web sites about turtles, so when you searched on turtles it could use those links to rank results with turtle-related words in them. Essentially, the reason Google was so reliable was that we didn’t rely on it.
Have you noticed lately how, more and more, people say on their blogs or web sites or whatever, I’m not going to bother to link to that, just google it?
Have you noticed the results of searches on google getting worse?
Maybe the more we rely on a thing that works because we don’t rely on it, the less reliable it becomes.
Google helps those who help themselves?
Interesting, huh?