SEOs -- what's the prevailing attitude?

[Michael ODonnell]

Search engines are so easy to use that stuff like toolbars
and other "helpers" seem completely unnecessary.  And there
are sites on the WWW (are these the "optimizers" you're
asking about?)  whose supposed value is that they present
ready made collections of links about various topics, but in
my experience the only thing those sites ever do (since the
few times I've tried them the links they've presented have
NEVER been as good as those I can find on my own) is clutter
the results pages generated by the "real" search engines.

I suspect the people who operate such sites are concerned
more with hit counts than link relevance, though, since those
sites mostly seem to just be attempts to flog Gooooogle ads.
And they must be making at least a little money for their
operators or there probably wouldn't be so many of them.

Hooray!  for commerce, I guess, but I ignore such sites and
wish I had an effective way of filtering them out.


>What do you think of this particular site:
>
>http://www.searchborg.com


Yep, after a 10-second visit I'd say that looks like an
example of what I'm talking about.  Have you found that
one to be particularly useful?