How long will people be able to buy their way to the top of Google?

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Originally Posted by xxxjay

Guys, guys, guys...I am almost embarrassed by some of these responses - Google isn't making a dime from this. Almost everyone with a top listing for short-tail adult terms got there by buying links.

This flies in the face of Google policy:
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=66736

Oh please...are you telling me all those people selling backlinks (people that rank high on Google, btw) are selling for the sole purpose of advertising? I read the forums, and I read the ads..people are buying and selling for pagerank and seo.

Google may not be making $, but somebody sure as hell is...so yeah, money talks.