Death, Taxes And Google
It was Ben Franklin who said “but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.“ I was somewhat surprised at a recent article by Adam Penenberg in Fast Company that covered Google Bombing and the IRS. He found that someone had cleverly arranged by manipulating search results that Google searches for IRS forms ended up on websites that could create serious online damage. Google is everywhere now.
I did some Google searches on some very popular topics and the results may surprise you. The following shows the number of web pages on each of these very basic words. (M stands for million here.)
- 1,700 M for Google
- 1,420 M for Yahoo
- 747 M for air
- 660 M for water
- 611 M for sex
- 404 M for fire
- 395 M for death
- 238 M for search engine
- 230 M for seo
- 134 M for taxes
Death and taxes may be certain but it is quite clear that some other topics are much more on our minds. Indeed there is much more written on seo (search engine optimization) than there is on taxes. It is perhaps indicative of how ‘top of the mind’ Google is and why there should be such a demand for search engine optimization services. Even if you go for quite local services such as MA seo or CT seo, you will find quite a slew of web pages on these topics.
Since people seem to use Google now-a-days rather than following some URL they may have, perhaps it is time for the IRS to be using some seo services to guard against these Google bombers. After all, if you cannot trust the IRS, who can you trust?
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March 31st, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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April 1st, 2009 at 1:35 am
WoW, the search result is very impressive, Barry. Three out of the four elements symbols (air, water, fire and earth) where topping the top ten list! Furthermore, it seems like people always have the curiosity about death as well…
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 am
Well if Ben Frankin was alive today I’m sure he would have added Google to the list! Nice post anyway!
May 1st, 2009 at 11:57 am
i do think that it shows just how much SEO has become an industry in itself rather than just an extension of Internet Marketing. Having said that i am not convinced of the validity of SEO services offered by many organisations. What can they tell you that Google hasn’t already put as publically available material?