Bobby_Davro - 3:40 am on Feb 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

This started well before Austin, but I didn't want to post anything until I was certain.

And although I agree that they don't need to be sneaky, it isn't so good for them to be seen deleting sites from the index; it is an admission that their algorithms aren't working well enough.

At least for the "offending" sites their front pages are left in and the PR remains intact. That is so much better than being wiped from the index completely.