Small_Website_Guy - 10:01 pm on Aug 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

I don’t think Google is able to do this properly or accurately, and once again many innocents suffer. It’s like the sandbox thing again. Did Google care about all the great new legitimate sites they white washed with that broad brush stroke? No.

Let's look at this from the perspective of the web surfer.

Web surfer sees a lot of spammy sites in SERPs, he thinks (correctly) that Google is doing a bad job.

So Google creates an algorithm that gets rid of all the spammy SEOed sites but also throws out a few babies with the bathwater. From the web surfer's perspective, the results are a lot better now, no more spammy sites.