steveb - 11:23 am on Jan 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

A lack of a privacy policy is complete nonsense. Having a privacy policy obviously is not a signal of quality, and not having one certainly does nothing to imply lack of quality.

Similarly how does "No published contact address, email address or phone number" have the slightest relevance to quality? But more to the point, how is a bot going to read a graphic showing an email address?

Ya gotta think like a search bot looking for quality, not some paranoid widget buyer. The two have little in common.