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Rick1  
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 More options Nov 20 2006, 5:41 am
From: Rick1
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:41:00 -0800
Subject: Re: The skinny on the supplemental index

softplus wrote:
> >Say you have a cool website about refrigerators. There's not one sole
> >in this Earth that is interested in refrigerators at this time!
> Please tell me, how can you make a cool website about refrigerators
> without being in contact with lots of other people who like them as
> well? :-) If you have something great, you will have most likely
> researched it online as well -- where did you end up?

The manufacturers' websites.  That is the only place you can go for the
correct specs/info/datasheets/manuals on the products (one) sells.

> There are forums for just about everything, I bet there's a refrigerators-anonymous
> forum with 7 or 214 people who just love everything about them. And if
> you notice that there are only 7 people in the world interested and you
> can't get them excited enough to link, then what is the site supposed
> to be for?

Forums are irrelevant.  Once again, forums CANNOT be used in EVERY
NICHE and when the overwhelming majority of people want to buy
something they go to a SE, not some discussion forum.  But let's say
some DO go to a discussion forum, but they CAN'T go to (it) because
it's NOT INDEXED by G therefore they can't find it!

> And if those 7 people interested aren't excited, for what
> should Google put it online?

It is not G's job to decide how many may be interested in or excited
about a product, nor is it their job to discriminate against it due to
how many may or may not be interested!  What about unique,
one-of-a-kind items, or unique, one-of-a-kind items that are very
expensive that most can't afford.

> How can you make a site without having
> direct contact with at least a small part of your target group?

Easily.  Again, unique, one-of-a-kind items.  However you bring up a
great point: Yes, you cannot have a site to have direct contact with a
part of your target group, because......YOU'RE NOT INDEXED!  Ah yes,
but there is the forums.  Oh, but the perfect forum you're looking for
is not indexed because a million others don't link to it because it's
either NEW, or, there just happens to not be millions of people that
NEED the product...therefore you are penalized for that and it's back
to GOOGLE determining the NEEDS OF PEOPLE and the demand for a
product!!

G is trying to rewrite the needs and direction of the entire global
economy by these actions and that will also be their undoing.
<grumpy look stern face with bobbling head and pulled in chin and
possible crack pipe or bong close by> "Let's see, there's this new
product or existing product [size "D" red widget] but I don't see the
need for it so f**k 'em, they won't get in the index or we'll just
sandbox 'em or leave them in supplemental hell forever because so few
will have the need to the link to ALL of their webpages.  Hell, I don't
need a size D, do any of you?  Even if we did, not in RED, right??".

> "Findability" of "small sites" (or at least unestablished sites) is
> something that has been mostly neglected by all engines.

Neglected by GOOGLE, obviously, but not neglected by Y or MSN (nor Ask,
AV, etc).  I've never once had any problem getting ANY of my sites nor
pages IN and indexed GREAT by Y or MSN.

 
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