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paybacksa - 2:13 am on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)
I have been running an experiment on local search optimization for several months and it hit a snag last week (I believe it started the week of the 18th, and has gotten slowly "worse". It is related to place names and would definitely impact travel sites and local directories. Page 1 results are now scattered page 2-4, with almost none of them on page 1 any more.
I agree this is related to local search.