TrustNo1 - 5:55 am on Feb 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

"Is Google cracking down on Affil sites."

No.

"I suspect that Google is making some kind of distinction in its algorithm between content sites that ALSO have affiliate links, and sites that are built entirely around affiliate links. I have a lot of meaningful content on my site, and I think that's what Google "sees."

Google and any SE sees any text on a web page as content be it a page with lots of words and no affiliate links or a page with nothing but affiliate links.