bobmark - 9:04 pm on Oct 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

Persuasive theory, 2by4.

Would certainly account for a lot and go with my feeling that over the past year they have been fixing things that weren't broke - problems in a totally new algo would account for that, reintroducing problems the original algo solved years ago.

Problem is, supposed offseaon or not, I find it prety cold that - unless the Googleplex is located on Mars - they have to know these little experiments are costing legit businesses an aggregage of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

Always been a problem with Google tho: without the work of individual webmasters they have no product whatsoever, but they have always dealt with all but the ebays/amazons of the world like we were freeloaders deseving no consideration whatsoever.