Some fantastic posts you're making on this thread redrubies. I echo your sentiments exactly. Money talks, bullshit walks...
You know, guys, I really try to be a positive person and not let shit get me down, because if I start to pay attention to all the injustice and terrible things in the world, I would just think "what's the point" not only of living my own life, but what's the point of having kids to bring them into a world dominated by giant monsters like google, ebay, walmart etc., or legal things like police corruption, the countless false imprisonments, killings, mistreatment and torture of animals, and the list goes on. I don't mean to be negative but these kinds of things make me sick. Even if I CAN manipulate the SERPs with my Xrumer it's a) not on a scale which I could get insane income to REALLY F G in the A; and b) even if I made millions, I would still see the masses with their incomes cut by 50, 70, 90 or even 100% and that square jawed fat cunt boasting about the size of his e-weener because he is deep down very insecure and really gets off on having so much power over people. Many people who harm/abuse others in a variety of ways whether simply physical, sexual, emotional abuse, do it for the 'kick' they get from the supreme control they feel, because in real life they feel the exact opposite. redrubies, I like your example of the disabled woman doing her quilting, because this is a perfect example of the little guys that Google does not give a flying FUCK about, and actually WANTS to ruin and wipe out. A desperately poor old woman might want to buy a gift for her grandson or get some extra money for heating during the cold winter, by selling her handmade products, but in Google's eyes she is a little speck that has no rights whatsoever. You have the money ie 1 mil+ per month, you have rights. You have no money, you are generalized as a disgraceful immoral spammer and are ruthlessly removed under that guise. Do you really think old ladies know how to mod Xrumer in their spare time?
I am currently ranking a batch of around 10 sites for old time's sake at the moment. After that, I am moving away from Google entirely, I am not doing anymore SEO and I am not using adwords. I will seek alternative traffic methods. Even if I still make money from SEO, I don't believe it is right for me personally. Seeing this happen to so many people and this fat bastard boasting about it actually hits my moral conscience.
I hope to fucking all that is good, that Google eventually gets fined to the tune of tens of billions. If that weren't far fetched enough, I hope to all that is good that this fine were redistributed to funding to lift the poorest people in the world out of desperate poverty. If G's bullshit "don't be evil" were being adhered to in any way shape or form, they would already be doing this voluntarily. But instead they are ruining regular people and redistributing the funds to their highest paying mega-corporations.
How the fuck to stay positive in a world like this?