Green_Grass - 8:03 am on Sep 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

"Google also told me that it never made judgments of what was “good” and “bad” because it was all in the hands of the algorithm. But that turns out not to be completely true. Mr. Savage shared with me an e-mail message from a Google account executive to someone at another company who had run into the same kind of landing page problem as Sourcetool. The Google account executive wrote back to say that she had looked at the site and found that “there seems to be a wealth of valuable information on the site.” Consequently, her team overruled the algorithm"

I found this para in the NYT artice interesting. It seems if the site does provide useful unique info, adWords is a good source of traffic. .

IMO , the site NYT refers in this artice, clealy practices arbitrage. Their listings are not of very high quality while the adSense ads are more relevant. I did glance at a few categories.