rfgdxm1 - 12:49 pm on Nov 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

>As others have clearly pointed out, the google algorithm works best for hub and authority type structures. This works well on academic searches, but leaves much to be desired on consumer/commercial searches because small vendors don't link to each other or to the big vendors.

A lot of people never buy things off the Net, and for those that do typically they aren't doing commercial searches. Thus, Google should want to optimize the algo for what the average user considers most important.

>If you want to "rank" well on consumer/commercial searches, you will probably have to use adwords, because the google algo is just too "weak" in this area.

Or, from Google's POV this is the algos greatest strength. This encourages businesses to buy Adwords. ;)