rfgdxm1 - 7:46 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

>Although I don't particularly like Florida because it hurt my industry especially hard, I did not think that something like this was very far off from happening, and I don't blame them for doing it. After all, they want better relevent content, not just those sites who are able to have the most links.

I still suspect this was due more to some attempt to improve relevancy of non-commercial SERPs. And stop and think. Some programmer goes to the boss saying that he has an idea to improve relevancy of non-commercial SERPs. He then comments a side effect is commercial SERPs will be worse. That this side effect will increase Adwords sales will make the boss more likely to implement the idea. The beauty of this is the boss can justify his actions to others as not being motivated by increasing Adword sales.