percentages - 1:21 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

>If Google suddenly loses a whole bunch of sites, their adwords soar. If they introduce a radical new algo, their Adwords sales soar again. They really can't lose.

Sure they can lose, they lose because 95% of people don't want to click on their Adwords and use Google because they like(d) their free SERPs.

Destroy the reason you became popular and you are on a road to ruin.

As someone else posted in another thread, it was a primary factor in AV's downfall. Adding Froogle to the SERPs is in some ways rubbing salt into wounds.....the question is who's wounds, webmasters or G's?