ATOMIC GOOGLEBOT

I've noticed recently that a large number of blogs are popping up in the first few pages of Google search engines. Maby it has been that way for some time and I just didn't notice because I couldn't tell the difference until now. Then I thought to myself "man, what would Google do if we all pulled the plug?" I'm quite sure that would never happen because the majority of us invest our time and energy creating nice sites because we enjoy it and find it rewarding.

I was quite shocked when I went to Google's Webmaster Tools and found that the Googlebot had finally accessed my site and included pages in it's index. Moreover I was thrilled to find that they provided me with statistics for top search queries and the rank my page was in the search. This is a valuable tool because it helps to understand what people are searching for and if you've hit on a hot topic you can stay with it. Unfortunately, as happy as I was for the information, I do not believe it is Google I have to thank for this, instead I give the credit to the blog community. Without their traffic, I'm sure the Googlebot would have skipped right over me.

In short, to answer my original question "What would Google do?" Well....what I can tell you is that they wouldn't need such a large database because at least half of their search pages would disappear.