Believe it or not I hear this question all the time – I think some people think the Google terms of service is the 28th U.S. Constitutional amendment.
Google is all powerful, but I don’t think you need to worry about them raiding your business and shutting down your servers if you make your advertising dollars from a source other then AdSense or spend advertising dollars some other place than AdWords.
Forget about all the mis-information you hear about text links. Text link advertising is alive and well and SEOs are buying text links in record quanities. At BuySellLinks.com I cut the crap and tell you the truth about text link advertising. Don't let Google keep this site down - Digg It!