johnhh - 4:08 pm on May 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

"What public good is served by click arbitrageurs' sites, made-for-AdSense sites with scraped search results or borrowed Wikipedia and DMOZ content"

May I take this chance to point out that most of these problems where actually created by Google by..
1. creating the Adwords/Adsense programs
and - more importantly
2. failing to set up an approval program which means they went for the easy money - no ethics here then

They let the cat out of the bag and are now they are asking webmasters for spam reports - probably for "test" purposes.

If there's a buck to made and the opportunity is given..