Reno - 8:50 pm on Jan 25, 2010 (gmt 0)

this is what I called "war declaration by Google"

I don't see it as a declaration of war so much as a declaration of independence. That is, Google seems to be saying that the long lasting and mutually beneficial relationship between themselves and the webmaster/siteowner community (that I referenced previously) will no longer be the status quo. All these latest changes that we've been discussing here taken individually may not seem unfairly disruptive to business as usual, but taken together it's a new paradigm. MadScientist is right about one thing -- anyone doing business on the web and counting on Google had better wake up and smell the gunpowder.

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