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> Adwords - clearly marked as ads. Or are you suggesting the results themselves could be bought and sold? This was definitely not the case.

Ad words spending had clear manipulations on the organic search algorithm. More spending meant better organic search placement. This is officially denied, but I saw this take place.



It is entirely possible that this would happen without manipulating the ranking algorithm. buy adds -> higher traffic -> higher ranking




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