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First of all we never signed up for Google’s club membership. Should I remind you that Google have had indexed our sites without asking us for our permission and that is my friend called highway robbery.

Second, whom the hell they think they are to tell us how we must to build and to maintain our sites and what we can and cannot do on our own web pages. It’s like if thief break into your house and then complain that your wine has too worm and there was no lemon to eat your caviar sandwiches.

Third, 99% of sites will never see top 100 pages anyway and because of that who cares if site is indexed by G or not. Furthermore, without our sites Google is nothing if we were smart, we would tell this little bitch Google to ask our permission and to accept our conditions and pay us for the privilege to list our sites.

Finally. We should use robots.txt and every other means to keep G. away and I promise you Google will be left with nothing more than pharma, porno and fitness sites and that will teach evil bastards at Google who is the Boss
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too bad google can do whatever they want, it doesn't really matter what we think

Google has the right to go in this direction seeing that its working.

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For the most part, I don't think a visitor can normally tell a paid link from a nonpaid one.  Which does raise a moral problem - we expect political office holders to disclose, don't we?  Same thing, vested interest and all that, that goes with that. 

Don't believe me?

Ever been to hair loss website, or a hemorrhoid treatment review website, that claims to do a review and come up with the best product?  The best product in many cases seems to be the one that pays the highest kickback, and  these type of websites are all about product talk rather than information talk:  They may tell you what a hemorrhoid is, or define hair loss, but then they say buy this to fix the problem.

So that's issue 1, the vested interests of the webmaster over the visitor.

But, lets get real, if Google wants the PR not interfered with by paid links, they have just as much right as anyone else to ask for help in detecting them.

Like anyone asking for help, there is no law that states you have to help, but if you like the guy - the search engine in this case - then you are more likely to help I think.

I don't think there is a wrong or right in someone deciding to help google out, that's an individual decision. So that's issue 2, freedom to request help, freedom to give help.

Most people who get mad at this sort of thing, I think, are the ones into black hat SEO, and want their or their customer sites high in Google without getting them there the Google way.

See the point - they want to rank high in Google serps, but they don't want to follow the rules of the club.  What happens when a club member doesn't follow club rules - they get kicked out or severely cautioned.  So that's issue 3, If you want to join in the club activities regularly, join the club, follow the rules.

For those 3 issues, well, I come down on the side of Google in this case.

Half of the issue is the siteexplorer in Yahoo.com. If Yahoo removed the ability to check backmining in their search engine, backlinks to websites would be transparent and there would be less link selling / buying.

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You said, that no one likes this idea, were we reading the same blog?

The algos can take care of most of this.

Do a search for any city or town in the USA, and the results are pure garbage - nothing but 5,000 page sites with virtually no information once you get there.

.....but, they have plenty of Adsense ads.

The negative part of the Adwords/Adsense ads is that it bloated the creation of garbage websites exponentially.

If google wants to discard paid links, that's fine. But to eliminate and demote the website is a bit extreme

Thats is a pretty crazy idea.  Asking the same people that buy and sell links to report people buying and selling links?

I think that as long as you are not selling the link based on Pagerank, but your selling the link/banner whatever because you are a content related site and need advertising money, I don't any problem with that.

I think the program is lousy. It pretty much forces owners to snitch on other owners, when the real issue with the mechanics of the operating algorithm of Google.com itself.