joeduck - 10:28 pm on Jun 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

EFV - do you think your G traffic problems were caused by "splitting your PR" between www and non www as suggested above? I think you posted elsewhere that you were skeptical of that explanation.

Your site is singled out in the eval docs as a "fine" site (congratulations and certainly deserved!), yet this suggests clearly that, at least in your case, the algo was performing in very unintended ways.

I think your experience supports the idea that Google does NOT use the raters actively but also that the algo has some major challenges separating the good from the bad.