HitProf - 10:03 am on Jun 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

Though I have to admit I've resisted buying into theories about G manipulating the organic SERP's to reduce relevance, to get Adwords sales up.

I've seen this type of theory before and I still don't understand how Google could benefit from that.

If this were true, then this would kill AdWord sales, wouldn't it?

Buy Adwords --> drop in rankings --> drop Adwords --> regain rankings --> spread the word --> others will drop their AdWords.

If *anything* (click pop?) is causing something even remotely like this scenario, Google should fix it as fast as they can before the vast majority of webmasters and marketeers is going to believe that buying AdWords will hurt your rankings.