Marcia - 7:26 am on Sep 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Given what we know about: --the increase of auto generated sites/pages --G's dissatisfaction with too many affiliates --feeds making dup content more prevalent, --etc, etc, etc,... yes, it's easy for me to believe that killing new pages, increasingly being dumped into the Web by a growing swell of new, short-term oriented webmasters....was a short term goal to produce a short term shake out.

It had to be, with the index getting filled with swill. I saw one site yesterday with a search box that generates and pumps into the index a replica of the pages in the search - mirrored on their site, with every single link on those pages generating additional pages. All part of their site, automatically generated with long URLs. Over 6K pages and growing, phony whois info.

I don't know that we're seeing TSPR, but it's got to have something to do with linking; otherwise, there wouldn't be sites that don't come out of it and sites that can get around it.