Many prestigious and popular sites just took a huge Google PageRank hit. For instance, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Chicago Sun-Times, and SFGate.com have all dropped from a 7 to a 5.
Search engine experts and webmasters are speculating that Google is punishing these and numerous other sites because of their advertising practices. And that brings me to my latest haiku:
Is Google at war,
Smiting ad revenue streams
That bypass Google?
(You can find more of my technology, computer, and search engine humor here and my news haiku here.)