OP - Matt Cutts Confirms Paid Links & Google PageRank Update

Reply - I would like to hear Google’s answer to why it is so serious to influence the SERP with paid links but it is ok to pay Google via adwords to show up first in the search results?  So they don’t mind showing ‘illegitimate’ or ‘tainted’ results as long as you paid them for it?

(I do realize adsense is done with java so there is not passing of page rank but the point still is that these links show up first in the results, and that is ok because they are paid for)?

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