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europeforvisitors - 2:12 am on Oct 15, 2006 (gmt 0)
Plus, it just wouldn't be scalable. (Think of the huge personnel resources that would be required.) And what would be the benefit to Google?
There's too much money involved in having good search results. Even the paid advertising model depends very much on good having organic search traffic to bring in the eyballs for the ads. It would be an INSANE business move to let one newbie on staff dole out -30 penalties on a whim.