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[kkrimmer]

Once known as the largest web index Google has gone down the toilet. They dumped millions of web pages for a new algo that lists a couple pages from a site, along with sites that link to the site. Problem is that google robots capture google ads running on web pages as legtitmate links which contaminates the search result.
A friend made a website with localized web pages like yellow pages and placed google ads on them. Google didn't think he had enough "content" so they blocked him from running google ads on his site, removed and won't crawl his website. Then google partners with registrars like godaddy to place google ads on empty (parked) pages - just the thing they penalized my friend for. Like eBay, Google is authoritarian, you see some post on groups.google.com until they're blocked. I use Yahoo for searching.
Click on a google ad and end up on a parked domain page with nothing but google ads - do that a couple times and bye bye google.

[SteveNimmons]

January is a bad month for sales and a 7% drop is not catastrophic. It would be very interesting to see click through statistics tracking global usage patterns. I wonder if ‘Web maturity' of the demographic has an impact. Of course it could be down to imperfect ad placement, as this must be relevant and seriously engaging.