OK, the posts here by Poodlehead are all just so wrong, on so many levels.
First PH, let me direct your attention to the title of THIS site. It is:
WickedFire - Affiliate MARKETING Forum - Internet MARKETING Webmaster SEO Forum
What part of the word MARKETING don't you understand? In a later post, you refer to wikipedia... go look up MARKETING there. Or did you just start this thread knowing you were going to get kicked in the nertz?
Take a look here
World Wide Web Consortium and read the header at the top of the page. Is not the W3C leading the web to its full potential? They say it right on their site "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding."
COMMERCE ya dough-head! We are participating in COMMERCE, part of what the web is designed and destined for!
Oh, and don't go getting the World Wide Web and the Internet confused. The terms are not interchangeable.
Webopedia: The Difference Between the Internet and the World Wide Web
Later still, you mentioned you've never seen a Burger King ad on the Web. You been living under a rock?!
http://www.bk.com/#menu=1,-1,-1 BK has a web site and, what do you know... they try to get you to BUY their stuff!
Cripes man, either get with the program or go spout your lame-brained ideas someplace where they're welcome.
I don't have time for this shit, there's beer that needs drinkin' and money that needs makin'!
PS Chris, Google doesn't run the web, they're a for-profit company, monetizing the web, just like the rest of us. And, as for poluting it with spam, that has been Googles mission since the first day they collected a web page. The more spam they index, the more money they can earn.
Google is NOT the best place to search for anything if you truly want information. It has just become a commonly used word like Kleenex for tissues and Xerox for photocopiers.