does anyone alse have an opinion on this...

because it is so easy to hide links using css (as was mentioned in this topic), by making the link the color of the body text and removing the underline, do you think that search engines may penalize sites for using { text-decoration: none } in the styles tag?

search engines say that they penalize sites for hiding links (which are often added to pages merely to increase page rank for the "linked" sites). i've noticed this CSS abuse on many sites and -- if i've noticed it -- i'd assume that the folks at the search engines are wise to it as well.

any thoughts?