max_mm - 1:17 am on May 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

The scraper explosion may have happened in the same timeframe as Google's indexing problem, but that doesn't mean it caused it. If Google was penalizing sites that suddenly acquired a large number of identical and highly unnatural scraper links, this site would have been toast; but it isn't.

Flicker,

Give it more time. It catches up with everyone, eventually. As i said earlier, G's algo has some serious problem with evaluating incoming links recently.

You may have not acquired the right number of scrapper links yet to trigger the nuking.

Check your site's link popularity on marketleap.....in my case one of the sites affected went from 150 (q links) to 20000 scrapper links within one month. The site was enjoying top positions for many keywords on yahoo and then BANG. G's positions melted with this update.

If you enjoy top positions on yahoo for competitive terms, be worried be very worried. That’s all i can say.