UK_Web_Guy - 6:24 pm on Nov 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

It's very worrying when so many webmaster feel there is a problem here and GG doesn't think there is anything out of the ordinary! - that's not a dig at you personally GG

I remember Dom/Esm - it took a bit of convincing but alot of the members of webmasterworld ended up being right that the quality of the SERPS was poor during that period - the fact that a lot of sites were restored high up the SERPS's after this period confirms this.

For sites to rank top 10 for years and then disappear completely! Come on - if these sites were so blackhat how did they last 2 years!

Something is not right at the moment, filters that may have been added seem inconsistent, big PR buyers still ranking well, and alot of clean sites vanished.

Has a real feel of somebody going round cracking nuts with a sledge hammer!

I don't expect this to change for a while, dom/esme took 2 months to sort out, after that fiasco I didn't think we would see a repeat from the mighty G.

Hope I'm wrong