bw3ttt - 8:03 pm on Jun 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

Anyone who is cheering right now is a fool.. Ask yourself one question before you cheer..

Do I own eBay, Amazon, shopzilla, overstock.com, buy.com or shopping.com?

If the answer is no then you are being squeezed out of this business. Affiliates get whacked first, then smaller retailers.. After all a click to a small retailer rather than to one of the giants will be worth less money to Google and is an undesirable click. (This creates a poor user experience.. HA!) If affiliates were causing a poor user experience then why not tell us what to fix rather than being secretive! It's because an affiliate site that links to all of the above companies for one search means that Google will only get 1 click rather than the customary 6 individual clicks to each mega-merchant..

Anyone who thinks the latest changes have been made in order to create a more positive user experience is kidding themself.

Consumers now get a choice between the same old sites rather than having a little flavor.. This isn't an improvement..

Also, all you SEO guys get ready for a lot more competition.. Speaking of SEO, I sure see a lot of the afforementioned sites constantly popping up on page one of the SERPs too.. The internet we once knew and helped to build is becoming dominated by giant corporations.. It's nothing to cheer about!