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The best thing we can do as website owners is to educate our visitors, friends and family about Google's profit driven practices. It's this type of social networking that is the greatest threat to Google. If you, I and others do take the time to inform our visitors, friends and family about Google, then less people will use their search engine.
While Google apparently can't understand what good serps look like these days, they certainly can understand their revenue dropping. Hit Google in the wallet hard enough and they may change course. Even if they don't, other search engines will pick up new users and deliver traffic based on relevance and not strictly profits.
The bottom line is to not use Google. Don't use their search engine, Analytics, Adwords, etc. Ask others to do the same and it may create a small enough movement that will show as a blip in Google's profits and traffic stats. It also would give the shareholders something to chit chat about.
Great post! I've heard webmasters try this sort of thing for a very long time, it never really caught on. I hope one day webmasters will realize google depends on THEM, not the other way around.
