blaze - 10:39 pm on Mar 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

It is really interesting how it is usually the senior / preferred members on WebmasterWorld that waste so much bandwidth personalizing their arguments and veer off topic into attacks and generally content free statements.

One would expect quite the opposite.

I know my terminology might offend, but the fact is Google has significant PFI aspects.

Perhaps it's not something they market, but it's clear and well known fact that you can pay for inclusion in the Google index and get well ranked at the same time.

The interesting thing about this discussion is not really whether you can do this, but rather about the inevitability of search engine ranking being a result of how much you pay rather than how an AI engine thinks you should rank.