Echoing Mr. Google Search Sucks, I have to note that Google is not only a hindrance to moving beyond web 2.0, but actually creates a kind of subsidized level of textual websites (and people writing way too much text) that limits the cool aspects of widgets interlaced nicely around the web:

An example of this phenomenon is the interactive music video by Arcade Fire. This is one of the most creative things I have seen in some time. It is engaging and I ended up watching the video about 5 times and every time there was something new to uncover. Watch the video, click around the screen, and you will understand.

Too bad this will never come up in search engines since there is no text on this page. What a shame. So here is what I propose. Lets Google Bomb the crap out of this video. I suggest the keyword Click Around . If you do not know what a google bomb is, type in “miserable failure” into Google and you will find out. Another example is “click here” which takes you to Adobe.

Now, miserable failure does not show the White House anymore as it used to, but that fix was manual, as “click here” still works.

Another thing to note along these lines is with duplicate content from rss feeds. I’m constantly now getting Chinalyst knocking out positions on subjects that I specifically write about because their site is getting picked by Google for content that I allow to be automatically placed onto their site (known there as a node), definitely not being able to tell which site is the original content versus the copy. It’s a give or take as maybe I will get reads through Chinalyst that I wouldn’t through search, but then again, maybe I would get more otherwise.