voices - 11:12 am on Apr 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

Google needs to find a way to weed out spam and then rotate the top 50 or 100 results daily. If the results are constantly rotated the little guy will have a chance and there will be no way that SEO can affect the ranking.
The old way of ranking a page by reading what was actually on the page was the best algo but also the easiest to take advantage of.