PatrickDeese - 5:31 pm on May 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

HBirnbaum -

Look, I don't work for Google. As far as I know the only Google reps that have posted in this thread is Googleguy.

Don't play dumb. I don't care if you think you did nothing wrong, and frankly, I don't care if you did do something wrong.

You claim you don't even know what "Partner Network" I am referring to when I substituted the word "digital" for [xyz].

Any site that has manages to accumulate 100K backlinks in a short time period is sure to raise a red flag with Google's spamarithm. If the bot sees that the links are coming from the New York times and a jillion other places - its going to say "hey, that's okay, this site got these links because it was in the news" - but if the majority of those links come from some "Partner Network"... well, let's just say that the outcome is not surprising.