SyntheticUpper - 3:27 pm on Mar 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Sometimes I wonder if G has actually lost control of the serps.

Such a situation must be easy to exploit by spammers, and even turn previously honest webmasters into spammers just to keep up.

I've held the line so far, but if G doesn't understand quality control, then why should I care about it?

If spammy 'site-maps' pasted onto index pages do the trick, then that's what I'll do - I have little choice if I am not to be sh*gged by those less honest than myself.

That's the tragedy of this, so-called, 'progress.'

Oh, and BTW, if G cared about link farms / multiple cross-linking / link schemes / affiliates etc. then why are sites like Am*zon and K*lkoo dominating the serps in areas they never previously did before?

It doesn't add up. But of course we all know that.