Takeover of the Google Empire
With the recent advent of Gmail, Google Talk, and the second-generation Google Desktop, the search giant seems poised to claim even more of the search market for its own. Chief competitors MSN and Yahoo have offered similar services for years now and still failed to overtake Google is the search engine wars. With this blitzkrieg of new products, it seems that Google has taken the offensive.
These developments shed light on the fact that, more than ever, placement in the Google index is vital to the life of your website. If you haven’t optimized every bit of code on your site to be googlebot-friendly, you’re missing out on a bandwagon that will carry Google even further above the rest. Heed Google’s guidelines for webmasters and stick to white hat SEO techniques, because Google has been notorious for sweeping algorithm changes that could easily drop offenders off the map.
Will this trend continue? It’s likely, considering recent financial developments in Google. The empire will continue its relentless expansion until it has claimed an even greater share of the search industry. Wake up to the Imperial March and don your storm trooper helmet, because the Empire is striking back.