Google Work-At-Home Kit? Make Money Posting Links From Home? Get Paid For Doing Absolutely Nothing?
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In my Internet Complaint Box post, I briefly touched on the barrel-bottom forum over at Google, where any and all forms of complaint and discussion seem to rise, as if bubbling from the soupy runoff of a newbie processing plant. By far, the most common discussion is the “Internet scam”.
A certain degree of triage is performed by myself and several other “power-user” contributors. Unfortunately, most of these episodes are too far along to offer any satisfactory resolve – credit cards have been handed over, repeat charges are appearing on bank statements, and representative phone numbers aren’t working.
Once again, these scams have absolutely nothing to do with Google. But since “Google” is synonymous with “Internet”, people seem to think Google should know that they’ve been scammed on “their” Internet. It really is a serious problem, and I truly feel remorse for most of these unfortunate victims.
And then there are the smarter folks.
The Internet’s Complaint Box
In Soviet Russia, Google deletes you!
I have been doing God’s work.
I’ve have graciously spent one of my lunch breaks patrolling and helping peeps on the Google Web Search forums. In this short time, I now fully comprehend the staggeringly low technological competence of the average Internet user.
The Google Web Search forum is a catch-all. Clicking “Search Help” at the bottom of any Google results page will take you to its door, inviting any and all forms of complaint and suggestion.
Scanning its contents, you will quickly see that Google unfairly gets blamed not only for all common software and hardware problems, but it is considered to be the omnipotent Internet moderator, deleting and adding sites from the web at their own will.
To the not-so-well-versed Internet user, this forum is a last ditch effort for support. To put it simply, this is where your grandparents seek out computer help when you don’t answer your phone.
An overwhelming majority of forum topics can be categorized into two trends: “I am being scammed” and “How come my blog isn’t appearing on Google?” But in-between, there is a mind-numbing number of questions that must be seen to be believed.
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