nileshkurhade - 8:49 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Google is basically a software that is constantly updated by extremely intelligent human beings. Being a software, if a logic is applied it has to be applicable on the entire cross section of the web sites. If any of the above holds true then there can not be a single site that defies the law of averages. Therefore the problem for Google is it cannot apply such generalised rules or else an entire part of the internet may go missing from its database.

But this dosent mean that there are no filters or penalties are not applied. When filters are applied a lot of innocent people also get affected for eg. if links.htm is black listed then all the webmasters whether they are exchanging links or not get affected even if one back link is found from the links.htm page.