It's not exactly Google's fault - websites out there try to "stack the deck" with keywords in their pages so that Google bubbles them to the top of the search results.Usually, they are just looking for referral fees (when you click on them and then get sent on down the line to Amazon.com or whereever), or they are trying to sell advertising or maybe sell you something directly. A few malicious ones may try to inject your PC with malware or viruses, but those are relatively rare... But, yep, you are right - it is a pain. It is a constant battle between google trying to strain that type of garbage out and the scammers trying to figure out an edge.... A top-notch web programmer the other day was telling me you had to be careful in how far you "pushed" the keywords and other manipulations to raise yourself in their search results because if you ticked google off you could wind up "blackholed" and never showing up on any of their searches... Howard
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