Originally Posted by jetjet

google isn't interested in hurting or not hurting your business

they are interested in the integrity of their search engine results.... his question was an SEO linking scheme, which is basically intended to artificially boost the relevance of his sites, which goes against the intentions of google's algorithm, so to think that it is a case of google not wanting to hurt your linking scheme, you should really be looking at it from google's perspective, in that your linking scheme is intending to hurt the serp integrity