Why do some SEO pros have no respect for Google?

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If it wasn’t for Google, there would be no mainstream SEO. They made SEO profitable and help many people earn a living so why do some people still berate them at any given opportunity? What is the self-entitlement about here?
 
So if you guys worked day and night you'd give every publisher on your platform total traffic and a 40% profit? Or is that figure still too low?
 
It is not a lack of respect but rather a huge respect as Google is the SEO's competitor.

It is not the other sites like people all talk about but it is about conquering Google actually.

Real SEOs know that.
 
I like the use of self entitlement at the end to encourage discussion. That’s a nice touch.
 
If it wasn’t for Google, there would be no mainstream SEO. They made SEO profitable and help many people earn a living so why do some people still berate them at any given opportunity? What is the self-entitlement about here?
Self entitlement? Would you respect someone who actively and knowingly tries to make your life worse?

There's this company, that actively tries to kill off any competition it has. And your earnings are basically dependent on the whims of this company even tho they aren't directly paying you. Who would like something like that?

And why do think there would be no SEO industry or it wouldn't be profitable without Google? Search engines existed before Google and there were people who did search engine optimization back in the day too.

Just that it wasn't so complex and inconsistent back in the day. SEOs back then were also webmasters and publishers.

Google made SEO a more complex job which created an industry around it.

But they also made sure they are only folks around in the search business. Making them a monopoly.

That made a lot of people angry and would widely be regarded as a bad move.
 
What did you people use to rank your sites before Google then? Yahoo? You think there might be a reason why that died off?
 
What did you people use to rank your sites before Google then? Yahoo? You think there might be a reason why that died off?
Altivista.

I still rank there.

It does not matter what they did in the past... this is IM where the changes are so fast you need to wear kevlar.
 
No, but if Google was not the bad dude, some other search engine and company would be, the largest companies always set the tone and always get`s greedy when stock holders need more money. It would not be any better with another search engine on top.
 
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Google has had too much market share for far too long re search and governments eg UK have been too busy with other matters to sort that out
 
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