flicker - 1:09 pm on Aug 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

>We read now that Google is also penalizing honest
>publishers who run site covering genuine contents
>including resource pages which usually cover alot, but
>carefully selected relevant, outbound links which really
>add value to the site visitors experience.

For what it's worth, this description fits just about every educational kids' directory I know of. I don't notice any of them missing from Google results at present. (Including the one I volunteer for, which has Adsense; others may too, I didn't check them all.)

In general it's probably a good idea, when a shakeup like this occurs, to have a look at the educational/academic sector. These sites as a bloc tend to weather nearly every Google-storm; I'm sure the differences in content/style between them and the optimized sites would be illustrative, for directory owners who gave them a really thorough comparison.