It's maybe a coincidence, but I posted an entry on August 13th that was already in Google just a day after.

Update: Lawrence Lee emailed me more anectodal evidence: "Please put me on your do-not-call list" fetches Joel Spolsky's article from August 13. It certainly would fit with what Eric Schmidt recently said.

As a side note, Google makes their Adwords keyword ad system work for them.

08/18/01 update: three makes a trend, four makes a fact.

08/24/01 update: Google working on paid-crawl service.