Adwords improve regular ranking?

Some people claim so.

[ggrot]

[trafficology.com...]

Look at #8.

The guy claims that simply having an active adword in google will improve ranking significantly. I can't think WHY this would be the case, if anything, I would think that google would hurt your ranking since they now know you are willing to pay for it, but I thought I'd ask for some opinions here.

[agerhart]

I can testify that AdWords has no effect on the listing......none...I would think the opposite.

[Hunter]

I tried it ggrot...it did not hurt and it did not help :)

[ggrot]

That is what I figured, I had never used the adwords program though, because the price was too high for my tastes. Thanks.

[agerhart]

I wouldn't dismiss it that quickly......I have seen fantastic results from it