No, really they do. Ever see a site with a negative rating? Well, mine has one. I never even had a chance at a PR0, I am a PR -1. You see it, believe it. Go to a PR site that does rankings and check it out. Everything I have ever seen tells me I am a negative one. NEGATIVE.
I know I don't have a lot of linky-love out there and that I now do sponsered posts but once upon a time I was the fourth site listed when you'd enter the word 'disillusioned' into Google's search bar. I miss those days, not that I got a lot of link-love then either, but still, people came, saw and went. And hopefully went away with some form of change in them whether I was ranting and raving about the people at work who wouldn't work or about the girl who kept falling asleep, or the client who yelled at me after calling five times because I couldn't get their representative on the phone. Sorry, I tried. I really did.
But this post isn't about work or customers or even anything. I am simply here to complain about Google's recent change. This is probably the longest running this blog has ever been. The server is paid up until 2010, I have to renew the domain name every year, but it's only 7.50 a year, so it's good to go. PayPerPost will help me pay for that, easily.
I don't think Google had a right to slap all of us bloggers around simply because we wanted to earn money doing something we enjoy. Hell, I didn't want to monetize this blog, but I didn't have a choice. I have a child to feed and bills to pay and I don't earn enough to even do that from sponsored posts.
Google did it to be petty. I enjoy Google. I would've torn my heart out before turning away from them, but now what do I do since they have turned their back on so many people? I still have an iGoogle page. I have three gmail addresses, two for personal needs and one for my resume. I have used Google documents and spreadsheets. The spreadsheets gave me access to keep track of my bills anywhere. I put every penny I spent and what it was spent on in there in order to keep track. Now I don't make money worth putting into a spreadsheet.
There was a time or two I enjoyed GoogleEarth. I used GoogleMaps and their 'drive it' feature to show me how to get to the airport to pick my Honey up when he was coming to Ohio to visit, and then to live. Google has completely infected my life. I feel as if it's a virus that I need a cure for.
I don't like Yahoo. I don't like MSN. I can't stand AOL. That left Google and they dazzled me and then as soon as I'm sitting around merrily enthralled with all their lovely gadgets, they stab hundreds of thousands of people in the back simutaneously. It was all planned out. They wanted to kill us but we are still here. We will thwart them somehow. I still have hope.
