Richie0x - 1:53 pm on Mar 4, 2011 (gmt 0)

incrediBILL The part that roasts my rump is Google itself is aggressive with ads. By the nature and intent of this update, shouldn't they just go offline?

Yep.

Google presented me with a SERP just now that featured more paid-for results (11) than it did organic results (10), as well as a big, ugly 'Places for x near y' suggestion list above the organic results.

The top third of the results page consisted of ads and suggestions. I had to scroll down quite a distance before arriving at the organic results.

I don't treat my users with anywhere near that level of contempt, yet Google's new algorithm saw fit to penalise me such that my traffic has fallen by 26%!

Google, I don't like you anymore. Innocent livelihoods are being ruined by this abortive update. You could at least have the decency to roll it back while you work on a remedy.

[edited by: Richie0x at 2:15 pm (utc) on Mar 4, 2011]