mattg3 - 3:43 am on Oct 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

My opinion is Google smells money in some areas and goes after it.

How could you POSSIBLY suggest that a multibillion Dollar heavy multinational which makes a big chunk of their income through their search engine, would manipulate their search engine results?

No, search results are completely unmanipulated as they have
1.) all the data on what is searched,
2.) where and when it is searched
3.) and by whom
4.) and know what makes the most profit on their and all the adsense sites.

How anyone could think that the search results are commercially dependent with shares to protect is a complete mystery. They would definitely tell the world if they would do such a thing.

Nah it's much more benign than that, each SERP change simply tries to bring WP on even more topics at the number 1 spot. WP shows indeed so much good spirit that it deserves an even better place, higher and to the right.

Nah on a Google result page there is only commercialism to the right and high up right, the left side is an oasis of peace and tranquility from the lesser human instincts and needs to survive in a money driven competitive world. :)

[edited by: tedster at 12:57 am (utc) on Oct. 21, 2007]
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