Blogging For Money

This was the last thing I expected but a representative from PayPal called me, “for security reasons” she said. What, she thinks that I am a terrorist?

Anyway, although at first she addressed me as “Mr Juferi” (hello, that’s my father lah, not me), she was on the whole very nice to deal with. She asked me about whether I did some transactions (I said yes, I did) and I gave her the websites that uses PayPal for business transactions. Apparently she was satisfied with the answers I gave and so she thanked me and hung up. Not a bad service, but I wondered why is it only now they are making calls to me? Why was it that when my PayPal account was limited a few months back, they never even bothered contacting me, let alone drop a personal e-mail notice?

Sometimes I wonder why our whole online business model depends too heavily on Google? Unfortunately as much as I would like to claim otherwise, mine too is based upon Google’s PageRank algorithm and how it influences their SERPs. Its hard to go for an alternative even though there are others such as Yahoo and MSN because Google’s search results is no doubt the best in the world without question. It may be a competitive search engine market but whether we like it or not, Google is the King and we are their Slaves. Whatever they say or do, we hurriedly try to comply even though we should be targeting all search engines in general.

Until an alternative is found to the situation where we don’t have to rely on the Big G anymore, I doubt things will change in the future.

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