wheel - 4:38 am on May 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

Actually, no. When a for profit company defines rules that are implemented for no other reason than it's own financial benefit those rules aren't ethics. Those aren't some sort of good-fairy keys to webmaster heaven. They're Google's attempt to make money. Simple as that.

Google's scraping my content to make money. I allow it because I make money in return. They don't ask my permission to scrape content, I don't ask for permission to manipulate my own site so they decide my site ranks well.

People loose site of the fact that Google is a for profit company, with profit as it's primary goal. Unless you want to believe that they've really in business for some more ultruistic purpose. In which case, please pass the hookah.