UK_Web_Guy - 11:07 pm on Jun 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

If this eval system isn't intended to highlight specific pages/sites as Spam and ultimately lead to their removal/demotion in rank - then why does the Spam Guide go into as much detail as to how to spot hidden text/affiliate links etc.

These are things that are year's old - so how can a Rater saying this site has x amount of hidden text or this site has x number of affiliate links help to improve the algorithm?

It can't, if the algorthim could handle these things or G wanted to base ranking factors on the use of them then it would already - so the only purpose of these reviews is to highlight individual cases. Which to me means manual reviewing of the SERPS to remove the "Spam".

I can appreciate the irritation that GG has about this info being made public and I think the fact that he is, or appears, so irritated also speaks for itself.