promis - 9:00 pm on Oct 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

Spine, I couldn't agree with you more. I've seen lately so ubsurd results I couldn't nelieve my eyes. Spam spam spam! I've even reported to Google a couple of spammy sites at the very top of the SERPs, so spammy with auto generated pages, redirects and much more I though Google would drop them the next day. Insstead they rank even better!
There is also a case with a certain page of Ask Jeeves that comes up in the top ten for all sorts of search terms, most of them don't even appear either in the title, or the content or even in backlinks. It's like the Joker of SERPs! If this is not a self destructive mood that has taken over Googleplex then Google's engineers must have sleepless days and nights trying to figure out what has gone wrong. I've a;ready removed all Google search boxes from my sites. My visitors deserve better...