Originally Posted by $5 submissions

...Maybe instead of focusing on how people can get one over Google, they should look at its professed mission to serve content consumers and ALIGN THEIR INTERESTS with that mission. If this is the case, the affiliate model isn't going anywhere. You would have become a collaborator in adding real value to the Internet instead of one in millions trying to hatch ways of diverting some of that yummy traffic through blog farms/autoblogs/cookiecutter tube CJ sites and many other common methods that are now facing the wrath of the Panda and its upgrades....