alwaysthinking - 2:01 am on Jul 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

The Contractor - yes I remember seeing GoogleGuys comments to the effect they were going to be looking at scrapers & ODP clones...

Which is fine, it will take me just a couple of seconds to delete the ODP script - I didn't like promoting THEM anyways as they have turned into a self-serving clique guarding their own & their cronies interests, rather than helping to promote quality content - be it new or old. I have not noticed a new site added in my particular sector of interest for years, and ODP has many links still listed for companies that went bust over 5 years ago...

HOWEVER... my site that was designed specifically for Yahoo MSN and does have minimal web presence in Google, STILL is in Google... and perhaps is doing a tad bit better - an interesting development that I will have to keep an eye on.

But I digress... Back on topic... The site without the ODP script or any other directory only has ONE link on a "our business associates" page. Hardly anything that I would think should red flag it for complete deletion by Google.

No, I think Google is busy exercising a new agenda in response to the highly anticipated implementation of Yahoo's contextual ad program, and bring up the rear again... MSN's copycat ad program. Of course some will argue that Overture was the originator of contextual ads... just something else to mull over while grasping at straw trying to pull a solution out of my hat for a problem that I can't discern because of Google lack of operational clarity.

Just calling it the way it is... I've never been one to sugar coat things for PC-ness,

The first company that has an open door police about their advertising polices will be the winner IMHO. This guessing game ever time Google SERPs burp is for the birds, as I believe most would agree.

Final prognosis, I'm deleting the ODP script, then cleaning up the links I had to it on my human-edited pages for supplementary information to my on target primary content.

Then wait and see what happens... OR maybe even receive a definitive answer from Google (wishfully muttering to myself) from which I can take decisive corrective measures.