Blog about Google and Earn Cash!

Submitted by Jamsi on September 15, 2006 - 3:51am in
Blogging Jobs

The Visual Connect Network (visualconnect.net) is looking for an enthusiastic blogger to write content for our Google blog, googlewatchdog.com

Please note this is a PAID position. It doesn’t require you to post EVERY day, but a few times a week or more should satisfy.

Applications must have the following criteria;

Be enthusiastic about the web and everything Google
Must have previous blogging experience with the WordPress platform.
Must be able to interact with the community, leaving comments on other blogs, forums etc.

If you think you have what it takes to blog for the visual connect network, please send in the following

Examples of your work (Include URL!!)
Your name
Your primary email address

All enquires can be sent to james@visualconnect.net

Note: Payment is sent out monthly and our preferred method of payment is paypal.

Hard to be enthusiastic

Submitted by shotoshi on September 15, 2006 - 11:18am.

Whilst it's easy to be enthusiastic about the web, Google is just plain evil.

Google is ruining the internet but everyone seems to be OK with it because they're not Microsoft.

There's a question on Google along the lines of 'would your site/blog exist without Adsense ?'

Our answer to that was an emphatic YES. We didn't bother implementing Adsense on our blog and instead have been developing our own niche ad system.

A blog about Google should only be avoided, at all cost.

So, big thumbs down from me (not that anyone gives a rat's ring what I think)

Huh?

Submitted by clickbrain on September 15, 2006 - 11:38am.

Shotoshi,

You make quite a few assumptions in your post that do not seem to be grounded in reality or even some logic. In addition to say that a blog about Google would be a bad thing is also illogical. Do you somehow think that not bloggin about it will reduce it's influence or market share? The reality is the only thing likely to stop or kill Google is Google itself. Certainly others will tell you that they have been harmed by Google, but so far I have not. That is of course, the nature of busines - the goal is to win.

Brad

You can be enthusiastic

Submitted by Chris Garrett on September 15, 2006 - 11:55am.

You can be enthusiastic about blogging about the bad things Google do shotoshi, heh

Fair points Brad

Submitted by shotoshi on September 15, 2006 - 1:45pm.

Brad: logic, admittedly, is out the window in my assumptions. I was speaking from the heart, shooting from the hip (yada yada yada). But I repeat, Google is evil and will hopefully die on it's arse sooner than later. I hope. Although I should free myself from the constraint of hope, it is my opinion.

Logic is for losers.

Chris: that would be slightly more interesting and less nauseating. Ironically, such a blog could probably make a small fortune with Adsense ;-)

Adsense and Google are evil and I can prove it on an etch-a-sketch ;-)

Google evil? Get outta town

Submitted by Jamsi on September 15, 2006 - 1:52pm.

Google evil? Get outta town :)

OK, but...

Submitted by clickbrain on September 15, 2006 - 2:11pm.

This seems to me to be a pretty important discussion for the Performancing community. I hear these absolutes often thrown out to describe companies, that are in fact made up of people. So, to say that an entity is evil, is to say that all of those working for that entity are evil. That's a broad stroke.

In addition, it is my expectation, that a good number of folks that use/visit this site use Google to generate revenue for themselves.

I use Google search to find information I need, because they do it better than anyone else.

I use Google's Adwords to help friends, clients, and my employers get leads for their businesses. This in turn means they are housed, fed, and happier than they would be if they did not have the extra business that Google brings them through this program. My employer likes the fact that I have cut our lead costs in half and I have tripled the quality of leads and reduced the time it takes to close a sale.

I use Gmail, because it is easier to use and better at classifying my email than anything I have ever used and being a geek, I have used a lot of email interfaces.

Almost everything they do, they do better than others.

Microsoft used to be the evil empire that people painted with broad strokes and yet today, they seem to be not so evil to those that see Google as an evil empire. Now Google is taking on Microsoft with online applications the way Netscape should have done it. Yet, Google is evil. It is all very confusing to me.... ;)

In the end, Google is going to harm people and businesses with the moves they make. In the end they are going to crush competitors. They are a business afterall and that is what we and their shareholders and their employees expect them to do. If we want to change the way the world works and kill capitalism, because people get hurt, then we have a lot of work to do.

I won't pick one anyone

Submitted by Raj Dash on September 15, 2006 - 3:06pm.

I won't pick on anyone in particular here, but for future reference, if you see a BLOGGING JOB posting, please keep the comments relevant to the job. Take political discussions over to the Performancing Forums. What you can do is link from your forum thread to the posting in question. Then you can drop a small comment here to link over to your forum discussion.

thanks

Good point Raj

Submitted by Brett Bumeter on September 15, 2006 - 5:57pm.

While I did find the dialogue interesting, Raj has a point the exchange is supposed to be here for the exchange of services between professional bloggers and sites looking for professional blogging support.

The section seems to be akin an offer letter exchange or even an interview, where politics, religion and belief systems are sometimes taboo.