Is this a bad joke or something. I don't think that Shawn likes to be ripped off like this: http://www.google.com/coop/
I'm ok with it. G has the power to make a coop useful to more specific sites. It's not like this would be the first idea to ever be stolen.
It is totally different from DP 's coop. Google coop More like myspace + digg http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/05/12/google-coop-throws-spammers-a-new-curve-introducing-google-coop/
It allows you to pull specific sites into your search results. Mine pulls digg results into it. LOL why would google create a link exchange networK???????
that article explains it well. in that case, i am not happy about it, as i am already at the top of the serps for IBL based algorithms! I guess it can't be too bad, my site should be out the competition in a user vote as well. The only problem would be all of the industry associations would get a big leg up. And I just beat them all out as of the last update!