Comments on: Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt Thinks the Internet is a Cesspool

By: Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) Says Internet is a Cesspool

Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) Says Internet is a Cesspool — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:48:52 +0000

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For somebody who has a personal net worth of nearly $6.6 billion, the majority derived from his work…

By: Grabarz

Grabarz — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:02:23 +0000

Yuo bring up a good point in that Google has more spam and crap on blogger and blogspot than most of the internet combined.

By: SearchBliss

SearchBliss — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:04:14 +0000

I think I am liking the way Google thinks…finally.

By: dodo

dodo — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:06:23 +0000

And most of cesspool put the Adsense code or use Adwords to promote and all make money for the big G !!

By: ken

ken — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:07:41 +0000

Can’t say I disagree with him to be honest … lol. But then again, think about his audience - magazine executives - his job is to make them feel important - what better way to do that than downplaying the immediate importance of the medium which will eventually replace them?

By: steve001

steve001 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:46:59 +0000

well this is called the marketing mind and google always has something to surprise… thanks for the post….

By: Nits

Nits — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:27:49 +0000

Well, i don’t think “word of mouth” is still an useful way to market you website/blog.
The problem with internet is , if something is free, people will find ways to abuse it. Blogger is great for people to start writing about things they like. Not why do people create spam blogs with stolen content, basically because they want to rank higher in search engines and want more visitors. If word of mouth was sufficient, we wouldn’t see a spam blog.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:53:08 +0000

The spam blogs I was talking about are mostly MFA junk sites with no original content. They are cookie cutter sites that spammers use to draw any Adsense clicks they can from little or no effort.

As far as “word of mouth”, it will always be the pinnacle of promoting any new site, product or idea. How do you think MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter became so popular? Surely not from PPC advertising or from setting up spammy blogspot blogs, Squidoo lenses, Hubpages or by spamming Craigslist.

By: French Katie

French Katie — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:13:32 +0000

As long as he does no evil he can say what he likes in my humble opinion.

And if he’d like to make sure the cream rises he would take a look at this site and put this blog in the number spot for affiliate programs :)

By: Douglas @ Nashville Cabling

Douglas @ Nashville Cabling — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:16 +0000

It is interesting that you bring up the AOL thing, I believe they just recently had a undercover team call to cancel an account and had a great deal of difficulty with it. As far as Google is concerned I love the company and what they are doing, not really a big fan of who is in charge but I still like the company.

By: Chris Crum

Chris Crum — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:55:07 +0000

I realize I’m late to this post, as I have not come across it until now, but you’re implying that I think “the internet should become another closed media such as television or radio where only the voices of the rich and powerful are heard.” That’s absurd. But I do agree with Schmidt in that there is a lot of garbage on the Internet.

As far as Johns Wu (his name is Johns, not John) being a spammer is concerned, I don’t know anything about that, and have not heard about it from other sources either.

As far as your inability to opt-out from iEntry mailings, I am not part of the support team that deals with this, but every mailing includes the ability to opt-out a variety of ways, such as the unsubscribe link, the suggestion of sending an email requesting to be unsubscribed, or you can simply call us and request to be unsubscribed, which someone here will be more than happy to do (in a timely fashion at that). Our number is easily located at the iEntry site, which is also linked to from each mailing.

By: Storbyferie

Storbyferie — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:40:25 +0000

I guess Google is interested in the best search results. So a lot of garbage is not good for them.

By: Emma Brand

Emma Brand — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:39:43 +0000

I get where he is coming from. Sure, the cesspool they were instrumental in creating may have originally contributed greatly to Google’s bottom line, but long term the spam issues needs to be greatly curbed in order to provide us with a greater experience.