So I was chatting with a buddy (Legion: a WebmasterRadio.FM irc regular) on IM today and as is quite common the converstion turned to Google and the vague non-answers they give to support questions and the complete lack of notice on many upcoming changes. He laid it out perfectly for me:
It seems that Google has hired so many bright people (geeks) that as a company they lack the social skills to relate to their advertisers in a graceful way.
enndot
April 9th, 2006 at 7:35 pmGoogle has a communication problem that goes much deeper than that. Just read the comments in Cutts’ blog.
Shimon Sandler
May 8th, 2006 at 1:00 pmAs frustrating as Google can be, they are still head & shoulders above Yahoo’s customer service.
marny smith
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:48 amGoogle searches concern me greatly since if you google my name, canada, i’m feeling lucky, you go straight to a company’s website “gohomemarket.com” and I ended any and all affiliation I had with this company a year age. somehow they miust have integrated my information permanently into their websit without Google recocnizing that I have no affiliation to this site.
Bad for the search engine…my trust ends here!!!
NLC Internet Marketing Blog » Why Google Doesn’t Care about Your Business
November 8th, 2006 at 2:37 pm[...] Google’s behaviour suggests that they know who their customer is – the visitor. Their customer is not the advertiser – it is the average Joe (or Jane) using their search engine and other services. Not just one average Joe, but lots of them… millions upon millions of them. What would Google be worth without them? [...]