Callanish - 4:07 am on Sep 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

By now it must have become obvious to the PFI companies that Inktomi is dealing a death blow to their business.

There must already be hundreds of webmasters who have now been burned by this rampant demotion, who were formerly willing to pay a lot of money for inclusion.

When it becomes generally known that Inktomi can make an arbitrary decision to demote your paid pages and will NOT TELL YOU WHY then PFI is too much of a risk for medium or large sites.

At least we can build new sites and hope Google likes them. The PFI companies can only watch their whole business model disintegrate.