The thing that really gets me, is that since PR came on the scene, everyone has been working on good quality link exchanges and all..BUT 3 out of 5 top links I clicked on for the term “online casinos” were not even ranked by google??
My thoughts are that this cant be a permanent thing and they should be working on a fix..because its the users that are in mind and not the webmasters. How did your first hear about google? from a website you say? well I did, one of those google search box’s that people put on their site..or a link.
If google stays with their current algo, it will only be a matter of time before people are recomending another search engine, and google will simply die away. Its happened before when altavista was number 1.
The fact is, when I used to type in “online casinos” I got results that were not only good, but I could spend some time on these sites and read some good information. Thats the thing that google prides itself on, providing good information. Now when I look at the sites (and no offence to anyone who may own one of them) 90% of them are shit…totally shit. Bonus and bannerfarm-ish sites.
The search results need to be good and strong with great info if uses are going to keep using google. And if they dont use google becuase of these crap results, google are not going to be able to sell adword space. I dont believe that there is enough info on the adwords to “steal” the visitors from the results because they look to be designed to “catch they eye” of a user.
I just wish that if it was a big F*%k up, they could be so kind to issue a press release to reasure people…yeah right 
Just my thoughts of the moment :confused: