Scoble and what-he-said-would-be the future of Google and SEO

The noise arising from the controversial Scoble Sunday videos is subsiding by the minute but here I go again with my delayed reactions.

I’ve always been one of Robert Scoble’s thousands of readers. Being this wide-eyed SEO newbie that I am, I’ve come to learn a lot from him, along with other prominent SEO gurus, about this online industry that’s still relatively new to me. I guess it doesn’t hurt to say that more often than not, I’m still in that point where I’d blindly accept their opinions as truths, such that when some SEO guru states the SEO armaggedon has come, I’d probably start panicking and digging a whole in the ground.

And for this latest buzz in the SEO world, we’re talking about The Robert Scoble. The tech evangelist. I even blogged about one of his interviews once, that one with Jeff Figueiredo where they discussed about Google adwords, keyword analysis, and PPC. Being a very influential player in the online tech industry, one can’t dismiss such claims from the Scobleizer just like that.

There’s no need to panic yet, apparently. But the following discussions (retaliations, angst, whathavewe) about Scoble’s unusual “thesis” are good references.. you know, just in case his prediction (prophesy?) about Google, Facebook, Mahalo, Techmeme, and the future of web search and SEO, comes true before our very eyes.. or NOT.

• Why Mahalo, Techmeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years by Robert Scoble
• I used to respect Robert Scoble’s Opinion by Rand Fishkin
• The promise and reality of mixing the social graph with search engines by Danny Sullivan
• Mahalo, Techmeme, and Facebook will not kick Google’s butt by Vallywag
• Google and Search and We fat check your ass by Dave Winer
• Trend: Debunking Robert Scoble’s Mahalo beats Google theory by Wired
• The Scobleizer foresees a subversion of Google search in the future by Profy
• What I learned by Scoble

..and well, there’s more over at Scoble’s blog, quotes from some of the first few reactions that his videos got.

A lot has been said. SEOmoz and SearchEngineLand alone have said a TON. Their blow-by-blow reactions to the Scoble videos are enough to calm the storm as if to say, “relax, the world is still right where it should be.”

And I would have to agree. At the end of the day, that student who’s searching for the functions of the human brain, or that mother looking for parenting tips, or that drag racer searching for used auto parts and accessories — who all have no idea who Robert Scoble is — are still going to use Google (not Mahalo — they probably don’t know what Mahalo is, too) as their first resort to find what they’re looking for online.

Meanwhile, Google’s still the Internet search giant. And I.. still have my job.

Also, there’s still the Philippine Search Engine Marketing Conference happening this October.

And Aaron Wall is still the keynote speaker.

Yep, the world is still right where it should be.