This has been a problem for a while regarding these search engines. It’s really hard to identify who’s legit and who’s being scraped, from who’s scraping themselves, or offering RSS feeds for the taking for the link backs.

It’s a HUGE problem that I don’t see Google doing anything about and it has to make you wonder how long until enough folks are screwed by this mess before it hits the news.

Let’s face, identifying who’s who is damn near impossible, so why would Google waste time fielding thousands of calls/complaints from small time bloggers and websites? They only care about the big guys, and those are easy to identify by now.

I’m gong to continue my writing, but I fear that the “good times” are coming to end in regards to self-publishing. Social Networking is too hot to ignore and blogging is going to be trumped by video blogging if it hasn’t already.

Not a fun situation to deal with at all.

Ernesto Gluecksmann