Rollo - 3:53 pm on Mar 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

Your comments are appreciated. As I mentioned above, I’m not suggesting that lots of other things aren’t happening concurrently. Google is fighting spam obviously, they are trying to find mathematical solutions to complex issues which can at times produce odd results given the infinate number of variables, but I think that excluding consideration about the purely financial interests involved leaves any analysis woefully incomplete.

I've even seen some here call it a consipiracy theory. Well, a powerful company with huge market share and no transperancy pulling a few unfair moves to make billions? I'd hardly put that in the same category as a UFO abduction.

Google is no longer a project run by purists, it's a major corporation whose primary responsibility is to make as much money as they can. Becuase Google's bottom line is clearly more closely related to SERPS than MSN or Yahoo, Google has an even stronger incentive to manipulate them to keep revenues coming in and stay competative.