rfgdxm1 - 10:36 pm on Mar 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

>I'll simplify it for you. Even if true, you're NOT paying anyone for inclusion. You'd be paying to rank better.

As the resident philosopher here, I must respectfully point out that may not be true. There is evidence to suggest that getting high PR inbound links may make Googlebot crawl your site more deeply than if you don't have them. Thus, if I have a huge site, and buying a link on a PR7 page gets my site crawled fully, I am indeed paying for inclusion. Of course it is not Google I am paying; it is another webmaster. However, the net effect is the same.