Firestorm at Z's....

[Sumpter250]

I don't know about all of the search engines, but it seems to me I read a couple of years ago that Google decided to increase their revenue by selling priority on searches, so that when someone types in a search, commercial interests who paid the fees would find their site automatically at the top of the first page. If enough commercial sites paid, a non-profit like us would be relegated to the second or third page.

Yup - and that's what happened when Peter formed Zealot - he moved us to the top of the search engines and we got all kinds of spammers, ad bots etc.. it was brutal........Not doing that here...

Isn't that basically paying good money to be the "Duty Moving Target"??

I was lead to the-Gauge by a post on the model railroader forum, by a gauge member.
The "pay for top billing" (I almost typed "play"....it's an Illinois thing) has made search engines almost useless. The "for profit" results have pushed the information results several miles down the road, and my "feet" really aren't up to the "walk" any more.


P.S. I like not being the duty moving target.