Many people are saying completely incorrect things...bonkers I say!!! Jennifer Laycock (the About search webguide)explains why some of these people are nuts.

One of the largest purposes of the recent Google algorithm change was to stop the sales of PageRank. I just read issue #49 of AllBusinessNews which was titled "Buying & Selling Google PageRank Too Good to be True?"

Some of this information is entirely incorrect. For example "Google only indexes approximately 750-1000 words to a page. If your link is at the bottom of a lengthy page...it's not likely going to be indexed or affect your PageRank at all."

I do not understand how people get published writing small articles with some information in it that is so blatently wrong.

Another interesting article by Gord Hotchkiss.

I think his articles, the one from Barry Loyyd, and Danny Sullivan's resource center are resting as the answer for what has happened.

Another couple good entries about the subject are done by Da' Tmeister and Andrew Goodman. Beyond those articles most of the activity has came from within the SEO forums. I must state that I have the utmost of respect for Danny Sullivan as he was one of the first people who linked into my article.

Most of the other people in the SEO field ignored the existence of my early article with the exception of the dubious website that had a generic article with an extremely similar name to my article...
Today many SEO websites still have dissatisfied customers and are now producing third rate rehash articles only citing a few of the above sources.

Early next year Google is to expand into India.

Google has recently started to allow package tracking for FedEx and UPS