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Following the upsurge of Danny Sullivan’s recently launched Sphinn social network site, CattMutts, self-confessed “vocal right-wing flag-waver” and vociferous Google critic of Threadwatch fame, gave it a thorough try, as can be seen from this impressive selection:

• Google at 700 Mhz? …Think About It!
• An Open Appeal to Bill Gates About Google Buying Bandwidth
• MontereySEO: What’s Google Doing Out of the Kiddie Pool?
• Not So Fast…Congress Not Swallowing Google’s Kool-Aid
• The SEO Future is …You!
• Full Speed Ahead…But To Where?

Make no mistake: His critical stance was anything but just another sample of gratuitious Google bashing or brainless linkbaiting for the heck of it:

When I speak up about Google’s dangerous global intentions, it’s because I have a solid understanding of national and international waves of culture over the last several centuries and I see what’s ahead if Google gets its way. And I don’t like it. Not in the way that it is personally distasteful, but in that it is not going to be good for us as Americans (note: the Britts, Aussies, etc. are Americans too. So is fantomaster.) That is, it is dangerous to our privacy and our freedoms.

(As an aside I’ll confess that, of all unlikely things, I’ve never ever in this incarnation been termed a cloaked American before LOL - which goes to show that to live is, indeed, like it or not, to learn…)

Now, he’s returning underground. After Google’s Matt Cutts checked out his profile at Sphinn, it seems he’s just about had it:

He can very easily find out who I am, where I am, he can read all of my emails in all of my gmail accounts, read my docs, my spreadsheets, see my pictures, find my websites, etc. etc. I mean any seo could track down my identity and my address. I’m not really hiding or anything. But Google, on the other hand, possesses WAYY more information than anybody should that is not part of your family. From my browsing history, Google can track down my banks, my personal interests, etc. and ascertain something of a profile on me, which, I suspect, is their goal anyway (on everyone, that is, not just me.)

Well, all pigs must die, as they say:

So it is time to go back underground. Matt Cutts has appeared. CattMutts must vanish. Like a phantom (or is that fantom?).

Ok, fellow fantom (or is that phantom?) – I’m not at all worried about losing track of you. Let this particular kraut tell you: Vee heff our ways!

However, I’d venture a guess that there’s quite a few alike thinking minds around who’ll miss your public schtick, your chuzpah and one of the smartest voices of those that refuse to lend credence to the gallons of Kool-Aid the ‘Plex spinmeisters are feeding to the masses by the minute like so much opium for the people (and in as religious a language as that other societal con job this allegation is referring to). But the critics’ chorus is a-waxing in proportion, so rest assured your work has not been in vain.

As for our esteemd readers: Do check out his entire piece – see link below – (and screw the long tail header typo, they haven’t deserved better anyway) unless you’re just another Google brown noser, in which case please get lost, will you?

It’s definitely reading time well spent:

I Am Naked Before Goolge and Matt Cutts!

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