1script - 6:03 pm on Apr 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

@ randle:

Excellent post, you may be onto something with negative rank factors. You'd think that lack of positive is a negative in itself, but since we don't know the actual formula...

Anyways, I have a hard time imagining what might be the negative factor for mysite.com on search for "mysite.com" that bumps you down to #31 (or even #225 as I have started seeing yesterday). I am pretty sure mysite.com is much more relevant than that loose bunch of local business listings, outright scraped pages, and other VERY random pages that are being returned before mysite.com.

Well, the above sort of leads me to believe there is still such thing as penalty in Google's arsenal.