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Brad - 11:13 am on Oct 24, 2002 (gmt 0)
As I remember it, only after a great uproar did GG go in and investigate specific sites. That makes me think it is automated.
When Google introduced that PR0 penalty around the begininng of this year it seemed like a automated profiling clampdown that swept up a lot of innocent sites too.