Google's heavy-handed tactics. I don't agree with this, I think Google has every right to provide it's main customers (searchers) the best possible product tha

Google's heavy-handed tactics. I don't agree with this, I think Google has every right to provide it's main customers (searchers) the best possible product that they can. If anything, removing sites like these actually cut into Google's profits. I have no problem with directories that are trying to drive legitimate, organic traffic to their sites, nor do I have a problem with any kind of web directory - I think that anyone who is adding value to the net should be commended. I just think that if their whole reason for existence is to convert inbound adwords clicks into outbound adsense clicks by using scraped content, how can that possibly be valuable? Most people here could easily replicate this site in the space of an afternoon and have the content up within days - grab an RDF dump from DMOZ, insert those URL's into any off the shelf spider and capture meta data from those pages and mash it up = instant spam site, does it add value? Most definitely not.