whitenight - 9:34 am on Feb 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

gee,
_{It's becoming so predictable, it isn't even fun pointing it out anymore}

i seem to remember a few months back a thread where whitenight was ranting and raving aka "getting his blood pressure raised" about Google fiddling with SERPs in order to "deter automated queries"(their FUD explanation, not mine)

I seem to remember MC coming on to do "damage control"

I seem to remember that whitenight was saying it was MUCH BIGGER THAN THAT and his fellow webmasters should "LOOK BEYOND The UNOFFICIAL-OFFICIAL GOOGLE COMMENT" for a time when Google would try to ELIMINATE webmasters ability to track their OWN STATS.

I remember it VERY CLEARLY, and remember paraphrasing "you'll see soon enough WHY you should be extremely concerned about the topic"

Continue to ignore,
be passive,
keep "a cool calm head", or
whatever
about what's going on At Your Own Risk

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I'm not posting to encourage more ranting, but i would like to see more than a FEW webmasters realize what Goog is slowly doing to YOUR individual businesses and perhaps get a little "peeved" about it.
_{...i do rant for a reason...}

aforementioned rant
Does Google Block Web Position Gold Ranking Reports? [webmasterworld.com]