ยท Firefoxman wrote:
Google doesnt make any manual changes to their engine, or so they say. If you are linked to by people w/ high pagerank, your rank goes up. No matter what.
Well, they're a little more circumspect than that---they do explicitly say that they're always combating search-engine-gaming techniques, though of course they don't give any details on what they're doing to combat them. They've occasionally mentioned specific things they were targeting, like trying to downrate the effects of mass-blog-linking.
-Mark