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Jim,  what you are talking about is Adwords, a fee based marketing program 
that gets your web site in front of viewers so you can sell more stuff. 
Adwords has nothing to do with Google's search engine....it is a seperate 
product that Google sells to site owners to market their site.  Google has 
many services for webmasters that are available for marketing your site to 
get more exposure.  I, for one, do not use Adwords, except on my blog, which 
is hosted by Google.  They list the Adwords on my blog because I host my 
blog with them for free.  The sites that show up in the Adwords are all 
associated with fruit growing because they give me the option of choosing a 
category for those Adwords.  Google is still the best and most widely used 
search engine out there and they always keep our web site listed in the top 
ten because I have all of my sites submitted automatically through the 
SubmitNet service.  We get over 50,000 visits per year to our web site and 
over 75% of those are sent to us via Google.

And now for what this list is really for....I am looking for Bud9, M9 or G16 
rootstock.  I am collecting sources for those rootstocks for price 
comparison so if anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate them. 
Once I have all of my prices collected, I'll post them for a reference. 
Thanks!!


Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
Office (815) 648-4467
Mobile (815) 228-2174
Fax (609) 228-2174
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
http://www.revivalhymn.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:39 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Google has become unscrupulous


>    If I (or anyone) pay Google's fee, your search word can get inserted 
> into my website abstract in an underhanded, sneaky attempt to get you to 
> browse my website.  It doesn't matter what I sell, so long as I pay 
> Google's fee.  I call that unscrupulous(!!!) and am looking for another, 
> hopefully more honest, search engine.
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
> For jams, jellies, syrups and more:
> www.jellygal.com
> 1-877-265-6856 (Toll Free)
> 1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)