i have seen a user on dp saying himself as owner of aviva he stated that he is no sad for what google is doing but he is thinking for those people who bought such costly links on his directory? is n't it amazing?
But i will say only that google should not act like this with directory owners and if google continued to do so ...it may loose a lot of users becoz every one will start to consider
pr of some other search engine and we will be happy if yahoo or altavista launch such a programme...becoz they may get a lot of publicity if they did so in such a situation..