ezrydr - 11:21 pm on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Statistical analysis to weed out all the sites who link artificially?

I don't think MSN believes they will weed out "all" artificially linked sites, but they just might be able to catch those doing so considerably well outside the "norm".

But the point of my original post was to say there is more that can be done to reduce artificial linking than is currently being done (in fact some suggestions have been made in this thread to look for more on-page relevancy from linking pages and from the neighborhoods to which they belong). I don't mean to say MSN or Yahoo will be the great answer to search relevancy. Just that competition is a good thing and competing technologies is probably our best hope for improvement in this area.