Conard - 9:21 pm on May 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

Interesting first post.

I remember sending an email to Google way back when, mentioning the I had planned on moving a site to another domain name and I asked if what I had planed would allow me to keep my rankings.
The next day I received a detailed reply from a Googler giving me the steps to take including getting all of the sites that linked to me to update their links.

Now days, you can ask and ask and never get a straight reply unless you happen to be at a SE conference and then the information can be a bit sketchy.

Alas, our little friendly search engine has become a HUGE controlling factor on how you build a site, who you link to and how. All in an effort to keep their algo working and to keep the Internet relevant.

I chuckled the other day at a TW post that said the best and fastest way to clean up the web would be to filter any page that contained:
pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js

Now that would clean things up:-)))