Your absolutely right... Google is a little light on their
documentation regarding inbound links... but inbound links are not
going to take you of the index... could you imagine the implications
this would imply if it were possible... Google does to a certain
extend evaluate what your site is about by examining the inbound links
to your site... but it does not take you out of the index as a result.

I'm sorry... What I mean is that if Google did not penalize bad
neighborhoods or spammers then we would have a much higher frequency
of spam in the search results... It's a search engines intention to
show quality information in the search results. A website which has
numerous links to a "bad neighborhood" is credited as having a
relationship with the information found on that site.

There are very few assumptions which Google makes. One of them is that
the information it finds on a page is there for a reason. It's an
entirely automated process. A computer cannot know the intention of a
piece of information. It can only know if it exists. Or if it does not
exist.

I am referring to your remarks regarding real life. It is in fact
absolutely possible for me to go to my neighbors office and blow it
up. The laws exist not to prevent such a thing from happening but to
detour something from happening and to penalize those who do the wrong
thing.

From the perspective of a search engine. It is not within their power
to prevent you from promoting porno websites. They can only recognize
that you are and rank your site accordingly.

As for other people linking to your site which is completely out of
your control. I can say whatever I want about you. I can scream at the
top of my lungs about you and your business and tell the world what I
think of it... It's the nature of free speech and democracy in
general... We all have a right to have an opinion. The nature of free
speech is reflected in the search engines as well... If 1,000,000
people poin t links to my site and refer to it as a Hurricane Katrina
relief website... Then Google is going to listen to what those people
have to say. If 1,000,000 people point links at a tobacco companies
website and call them porn hustlers... well... Google is to a certain
degree going to think they are porn hustlers... But that doesn't mean
Google is going to forget that they are tobacco dealers...

Can you imagine what would happen if I could control another persons
website entirely? I would have to own it... I can certainly cast my
opinion towards it however... It's the nature of free speech and I
think it's actually quite brilliant...

The most important thing that you should realize is that as far as
Google is concerned... Not all voters are considered equal. Some
voters carry more weight than others... That's something that you
should consider when a seemingly powerless spammer starts to fire
links at your site... until they have credibility recognized by others
on the web... they are certainly not ogin to have a whole lot of
credibility when casting opinion towards your site.