martinibuster - 4:43 pm on Jun 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

and he correctly notes that the document states that adsense could easily tip a site from "good" to "offensive".

No, no, no. Read the document closely. That section is in reference to duplicate content pages in the context of secondary search result pages. The statements you are referring to are in reference to secondary search result pages with duplicate content. In no way is it relevant to normal pages. The whole section is about Secondary Search Results.

The document notes that a duplicate content page (and that section is about duplicate content within the context of secondary search results) will be deemed offensive by the ppc component. That section is not talking about original content pages. It is dealing exclusively with duplicate content, i.e. poor quality pages.

If you read the document it mentions EFV's site as having a strong commercial component, but the quality of the content is what matters. The presence of AdSense made no difference. It was not a "tipping point" as you say. It's all about the content.

The focus of the document, especially in the sections that Mikenoname is referencing, is the quality of the content itself.

It's like a woman who falls in love with a man because he has a wonderful personality, is witty and humorous, and it happens that he has wavy black hair.

Mikenoname's theory seizes on the wavy black hair as the reason the woman falls in love, which is just plain silly.

[edited by: martinibuster at 4:59 pm (utc) on June 7, 2005]