Sasquatch - 7:22 pm on Sep 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

What this would tell me is, many are targetting one or two known aspects of the algo.

And I hope google keeps tweaking things every month so that those with well rounded sites stay at the top and those playing with various tricks only bounce up there occasionally.

Discounting the value of the link text for a few months would cause them to drop sites that depend only on that. Then they can let it creep back in once it is no longer the technique du jour.