In reply to Lee Hodson.

At the end of the day Lee you (or I) have zero input on this decision nor will we ever. Google is in no way "telling" anyone anything. They're only "telling" us how our decisions are going to affect our rankings.

Google does what Google does and you'd be a lot happier if you learned to deal with it.

They could remove every site that has the word "poop" or "bubble" on any page of the site from their index and there's nothing anyone could do about it (which would really screw up the site poopbubble.com - no idea if it exists - if it does, I don't want to know).

Again, Google is a business that doesn't *have* to do anything (except for the obvious fiduciary duty to its shareholders).

I, for one, fully support this decision.

Icons, BTW, is just a crazy idea. Google is about simplification. The last thing they'll do is put a bunch of icons next to each link with a legend at the bottom of the page so we'll all remember what they mean. I seem to remember an old search engine that did something goofy like that years ago - just don't remember who or what exactly they did. It'll come to me.....eventually.....