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[jon baer]

>
> Each month I keep seeing a steady decline in what is in google and find
> that it takes longer to get to something that is not trying to sell me
> viagra, penis enlargement, gambling etc.
>

I think what you have to do is look @ the exact root of the problem ... the
"Internet" is not divided among educational purposes (like it once was) and
commercial purposes, its a mixed bag of crap.  Have you ever seen any of the
affiliate marketing sites?  Its almost like they *encourage* spam and bad
links ... and every site is making it easier for others to make money
through affiliation which means only more crap.  I spent the last month or
so figuring this out because my wife decided to ecom her stuff and I setup a
site and looked into affiliating / adsense / adwords / overture / etc and
came to the same conclusion as you that Google is deteriating away for
research use and that there is no reason for that "Im Feeling Lucky" button
anymore.

- Jon