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