It’s google bowling part two: All the black hatters will start reporting their competitors links as paid…similar to when people were submitting sites to link farms to get them penalized.
I think this is just further evidence that google is saying “hey, our search results are losing relevance, and we don’t have a clue how to fix it, we’ll just put wikipedia at the top of every search page”.
Google: You encouraged all of us to become white hat SEO’s because it became clear that fresh updated content no longer meant jack, I guess it’s time to go black :stirpot: