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Originally Posted by Toby

If we've learned anything about Google over the years, it's that they'll continue to tweak and fine tune things ad nauseam. I'm sure they realize that there's some collateral damage from the rollout of Panda and will be making adjustments over time.

Besides adult webmasters having a propensity to whine and moan about almost anything, many of the 'standard practices' these guys have called SEO are exactly the kinds of things Panda is targeting.

You just have to keep in mind Google is in the advertising business. The search tool is just how they generate traffic.

Gaming the formula to rank always has been a bunch of bullshit.

Google had to make some adjustments with MS coming at them hard with Bing. They are only responding to feedback from consumers and the engines have long been crammed full of shit and scams. Its not like they hadnt warned everyone this was coming.

I think it was the swine flu gaming and scamming that Woogie was bragging about a few years that put all of this on the internal Google radar.

But again the same people are crying about tubes ranking higher than their tours are the same people looking for a free download of Tron Legacy.