europeforvisitors - 3:56 am on Nov 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

A dishonest search engine company, even as they seek to deceive people into believing that their SE algo and SERPs are legitimate, and as motivated purely by unlimited and unfettered greed, actually manipulate the SERPs in order to blackmail proven authority sites to pay to be found or not be found at all. The search engine actually TARGETS such proven authority sites, reduces their SERP position to a point of uselessness, and then such authority sites are more or less blackmailed to pay the search engine for advertising ---or not be found.

What's your definition of an "authority site"? And how many authority sites would find it economically worthwhile to buy PPC ads even if a search engine's management were foolish enough to risk losing their audiences by manipulating search results out of "unlimited and unfettered greed"?