Good article Matt.

In many ways the web has become like "Lord of the Flies". Try Googling your company only to discover that a "web statistics" spam site pushed you out of the top spot for a name you invented, incorporated, and have used for the last 8 years. Or worse, that some Malaysian knock off assembler has started producing networking products in your name: VeraciTek Ethernet Extender.

At least our domain is on the bottom of the first page on Google this month. Maybe if we do a rain dance, next month we'll be in the top 5 for the name we created in 2005? We realize top 1 is out of reach on Google. We had it for 6 years, I suppose the Google gods figure that's long enough. On the bright side, Bing/Yahoo still lets us have the top spot for our own name. In fact, they give us most of the first page. Perhaps we should cast an Apple Computer off a cliff to ensure the favor continues?

Welcome to the Web 3.0. Aka: spamville.

< Ryan