It is bad enough that Google rewards people who use Google Checkout by placing a Google checkout logo in your Search PPC ads which basically force everyone to adapt the same process… they now crossed a new line. They now allow you to add promotions right into the Google checkout logo.

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What do you think is this fucked up or what.

Well the jury is out. Craig Hordlow Mostly SEO blog had conducted a controlled experiment to see whether Google followed links inside your Gmail. You can check out his blog for the details of the experiment.

Unfortunately, it looks like Google does not index pages through Gmail. I guess I have nothing to bitch about here. If anyone has noticed something to the contrary from gmail please let me know.