The best comment ever about Google

As the page rank issue starts to hit the low end of the knee jerk reaction, in the soberness that is Thursday morning, the comments start coming out of the wood work about the whole page rank issue, and some of the commentary is brilliant.

The best one that we have seen as commentary is from oreoceo, and if you need to laugh, at everything, and well everyone who worries about page rank, then go right here.

The commentary around it though makes for an interesting viewpoint, first of all page rank is a way that people judge the value of a blog. That is just reality, people strive after page rank the same way that they need to show the world that they are winners, fast cars, expensive booze, and a house you can not make the mortgage payment on because you budgeted on a cheap teaser rate.

In “Google is starting to irk me” right here,

Tyme from 9 rules really hits the nail on the head, we can do what we want to do with our blog or web site, and no one is going to tell us any different. But there are penalties if you piss off dad, and like “wait until your parents get home” turns into this every six month “nightmare” for folks trying to game the system.

What is annoying about the latest round of page rank smack down is that sites like Forbes, and others that we slavishly read on line got smacked around the room. Personally we don’t care about the page rank of this blog, or other blogs in general. If we want to find something new, we use Google blog search, and automatically go for page 10+.

In the mean time, we blog because we can, because we have a great time with it, of course we are happy if it makes enough money to cover the bills, but if not, eh. This is where it gets interesting, because as we stated yesterday, and as techcrunch was talking about the new potential dead pool candidates, some people are big bloated blogging organizations, without a high page rank, it will be hard for them to maintain their overhead. If they can’t do that they cut back, resize or die.

That is the issue as we see it, big blogging dump sites that carried a lot of cross links to other sites. Now here is the kicker, and this is the part that no one has mentioned yet.

That blog that was page rank 7 a week ago and is now page rank 5 is still the same blog. With the same content, same side links, back links, over the top links, and still have their fan following. If an advertising group is only interested in PR, then well, maybe you didn’t want them as an advertiser if they are that shallow.

While it is not the end of the world, there are folks who will be waiting for fallout, and some companies might have to downsize to meet the reduced expectations in income. But like everything else, there are always others, there are always groups that have many blogs and will compete in the same space with the same folks. The fundamental game has not changed, but there will most likely be some soul searching in board rooms this morning waiting to see just how shallow their advertisers are. Sites are many, dollars not so much.