Contrary to popular belief it's not true.
Myth 1: It’s out to get you.
Many people think Google will get you in some way or fashion.
Truth: No large company is after you. If they did they would be shut down.
Verdict: Busted
Myth 2: Google is after your privacy.
Some people think that with Google owning advertising, YouTube, the largest search engine, blogging platform, browser, DNS service, phone OS, and soon a computer OS, that they are after who you are.
Truth: It is understandable given the about of information that Google does have at its hands. Google though uses the information with respect. Most information is deleted right after its used. Any information that keeps (for any amount of time) is given by your consent so it can improve the advertisements you see, and improve your search engine results. As a result you see less annoying results, and better advertisements. Given people don’t want to give out any 1′s and 0′s and there is ways to avoid that in the first place. Like clearing your browser cache, using a proxy etc.
Verdict: Busted.
Myth 3: Google loves to give its blogging platform blogspot/blogger priority.
Because google runs, and owns Blogger/Blogspot people think it ranks those blogs higher, faster, and with less work. The
Truth: Blogger blogs (*.blogspot.com) is ranked just the same way as any other blog (like *.wordpress.com). It is not ranked higher because Google owns it. It does not index it faster because it owns it. Google does also not give any priority over its blogging platform. If at any case it actually does everything a lot less. There are a lot of spam blogs, made for Adsense blogs, scrapping blogs, etc on the service. Because of that Google will tend to hate its self. No one is immune, and no one is given special care. Your inbound links, quality of those, quality of content, etc matter, not what hosting platform your on.
Verdict: Busted.
Myth 4: It’s easy to get a page rank.
Google gives every website and blog a page rank. A page rank determines its rank in its search engine, and how it treats your blog.
Truth: If people don’t link to your blog, then you won’t get a page rank. The amount of links, and how good they are (what’s there page rank, are they related etc) determines your page rank. A page rank takes lots of hard work to achieve. If you have a ton of useless and irrelevant spam links then Google may even ban you.
Verdict: Busted
Myth 5: The amount of people who use Google Toolbar will affect your Search engine rankings.
Some people think that the more people who use the Google Toolbar on your site will affect how Google treats your site.
Truth: Bogus. The amount of Google toolbar users is irrelevant to what Google will give you as a page rank, or how it thinks about your site.
Verdict: Busted
So that is the top 5 myths about Google.
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