europeforvisitors - 2:05 am on Aug 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

Google SERP spam is growing at an accelerated rate partially because Google has made it profitable via AdSense.

Absolutely. I'm sure there are plenty of people on the Google search team who aren't happy with the way AdSense was conceived and launched. Now, in addition to affiliate and e-commerce spam, they've got AdSense spam to deal with.