This is nothing new for google. They’ve always felt that it’s “illegal” to game their engine. Yet they don’t offer any assistance in helping you improve your site.
My favorite is how they allow sites to advertise, and often manage to rank them in SERPs, that have no content, just ads that lead to endless chains of sites with nothing but ads. Google sells ads to these sites, pays commission on ads it runs on these sites, plus “allows” them in their search results. I would have to assume it’s a lot easier to determine that a site is all ads (especially when google’s ads appear on top) than to find “paid links”. Yet these ad arbitrage farms are all over google’s results and their Earnings Per Share every quarter.
Who said life was fair? google says :dafingers to us and we say that’s :bullshit:
And you can tell them it comes straight from Mayor McCheese!