I can remember when Google did not even manipulate their own page rank. Now it seems that Google is going to promote it’s own products over everyone else, take number 1 search engine rankings, ppc ads, and even get into the SEO Business.

Forget #1 PPC Spot; Greedy Google Grabs It
By Gary Thomas

A colleague and I were recently doing a search when we came across Google in the PPC and organic listings. At first we thought it was a Google marketing push for Google Maps. However, after doing more research, it looks like Google is trying to promote their local coupon search.If you do a search on the word “coupons” you will see that Google.com is the number one result in the Sponsor results.

We also did a search on “pizza coupons” Google was ahead of Pizza Hut in the sponsor links.

After doing a search on “Marco’s Pizza Coupons” Google’s directory came up number 5. You know it’s only a matter of time before its number one.

So now you can put your money into Google Adwords and you have to compete with Google for the number 1 listings? Google has no claim to the Do No Evil slogan anymore.