aleksl - 3:12 pm on Dec 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

Just f@#$%ng great.

Right now, in any competitive niche, if you type "widgets" in G$$gle, what you see above the fold is:
* 9 or 10 commercial (paid) results
* 6-7 "non-commercial" results

Out of non-commercial, 1 or 2 is Wikipedia.

So competition is basically for 5 out of 16 spots.

On lots of widget searches, out of these 5: 1 goes to manufacturer, 1-2 go to large Magazines, 1-2 - to large shopping comparison sites. I also see Yahoo! pages pop up here and there. Throw in a Google-owned "wiki content" site, and we are done with "free" SERPs.

As an eCommerce site owner that has a site on page 1 above the fold, that makes me very happy. As a large content site owner - very concerned.