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A Great company:

Sees an opportunity

creates a product

creates a market

A good company:

sees a market

sees the opportunity

creates a product

A bad company:

Sees the competitors market

Sees the competitors opportunity

Creates a product

The best companies do not plan to catch up the leader, they do not force into other peoples space, they find vacuum and expand into it.

 Sometime back on Matt Cutts blog mentioned that Google is testing new techniques to fight paid links affecting their search engine results.

According to Google webmasters who choose to sell text links on their website should use some method to dislose it to the search engines. More small webmasters use text link ads to generate revenues from their websites.

Its ironic how Google is using webmasters to serve its purpose and sting them back when its jobs is done.

Most of these text links are bought by search engine optimization firms to promote websites in search engines. Its easy for Google to say paid links are bad, but the content that Google serves comes from these webmasters, the ad revenues on Google search engnes should be shared with webmasters too then.

Instead of bettering their own search engine to counter these problems they are resorting to arm twisting whihc will never work.

But this brings me to the main point, has Google become too strong and godlike than we need? The answer is yes.

Something’ gotta give, maybe another good search engine or other ways of finding information on the web so that webmasters can create and sell content like they want rather than how Google tells them to.

As seth godin mentions marketers want to reach the unreachable, maybe something that helps them do that on the web too.